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THE SELF-GONSGIOUS 
FACULTY OF MIND 



As Discovered, Described and Fully Explained 

BY 

JL G- SCOTT 

Which Makes Plain the Occult Sciences from a 
Phrenological Standpoint 

Perfecting the Sciences of Phrenology, 
Hypnotism, Clairvoyance and 
Magnetic Healing 

A text book of Phrenology, Hypnotism, and Magnetic Healing, 
for the people. Demonstrating fully that Truth is reaHy 
more wondeful than all the Fiction that has hitherto 
been written about these grand sciences 



l^EW YORK LONDON 

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INTEODUCTIOJST. 



A TIMELY WARNING. 



Dear readers, if at any time in the near future 
you should hear a gentle rap at your front door and, 
on opening it, you should see a well-dressed and 
genteel person, who, while addressing you thus, 
"Madam, may I have the pleasure of introducing to 
you" (and at the same time drawing from its hiding 
place a beautiful bound book, while placing the toe 
of his 'No. 9 shoe against the door to prevent it from 
being closed, while with your No. 2 against the in- 
side of it to prevent it from being further opened), 
"a new scientific work on Phrenology, Hypnotism 
and Magnetic Healing. This is one of the very 
latest works on these scientific subjects and just the 
thing that you want. It is written by Professor 
J. G. Scott, one of the foremost scientists of the day, 
and one who has been before the American people 
as a public lecturer for almost a quarter of a cen- 
tury, and one whose scientific research has extended 
over a period of thirty-five years, and one who has 
recently made one of the greatest discoveries in men- 
tal science that has been made in the last century. 
His style of writing is new and original. It reads 
like a novel, something new and interesting on every 
page. Here is an account of his wonderful dis- 



2 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

covery. A discovery that is destined to throw new 
light and inspire new interest in all of the mental 
sciences. It is a book that all who are at all inter- 
ested in mental sciences should have, and I know 
you want one of them, and you'll take one, won't 
you ? It's sold at the extremely low price of $1.00 a 
book. See what a list of subscribers I have among 
your neighbors. You'll give me your name for one, 
won't you ?" 

Now, if any such person should come and urge 
you to buy, don't do it unless you want it; for 
while I know they would be telling you the truth, 
yet I give you this timely warning not to buy or 
even read the book unless you want to. 

The Author. 



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AN EXPLANATION 

I wish to explain for the benefit of my readers 
that while the science of Phrenology is over one 
hundred years old and has been investigated by many 
people and the phenomenon of mind known as con- 
sciousness was known to exist, yet it was not known 
that it was really a faculty of mind until my dis- 
covery, but was believed by all the Phrenologists 
to be simply a part of every other faculty and was 
so described; and if you will look over the list of 
faculties of the mind as described by them you will 
see that no description of any such faculty is among 
them describing this part of mind, and although 
their pictoreal head is all the space occupied, yet it 
is not represented there, and yet you will see by 
my description of the faculty that it is a very im- 
portant one as it really gives value to all the rest of 
the faculties of the mind. 

But if it were a part of every other faculty Dream- 
ing would be an impossibility, for if any one faculty 
were awake we would be conscious and we cannot 
dream when we are in a conscious condition. Neither 
could we be hypnotized, for so long as any one faculty 
was in activity we would be conscious, and every 
hypnotist knows that so soon as the subject comes 



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into consciousness that the hypnotic influence is gone. 
Many other proofs might be noted to prove it a 
special faculty of mind, but perhaps one of the most 
convincing is that every function, both of body and 
brain, has its own organ. 

As the intelligent part of mankind is far superior 
to the bodily man, let us inquire, what is Mind ? 
It is the blending of spirit with matter through the 
action of the brain, or some part of it. 

Every thought that the mind entertains is brought 
about by the action of one or more parts of the brain 
— called Organs. "My mind a Kingdom is," was 
the saying of a great man, and a very apt saying, 
too. 

The spirit of man may be said to be the King 
on the throne ; while the different organs of the brain 
are his subjects; to do his bidding. The mind, like 
all other things in nature, is made up of many parts 
— each part of which is a whole of itself — not a 
whole mind, but a whole faculty. (And when I say 
a faculty of the mind, I mean an element of the 
mind, such as memory or the musical faculty of 
tune). But few people realize how much things are 
made up of other individual things. To illustrate 
this point let us glance for a moment at the earth on 
which we live. This is only one of the many planets 
which revolves in space around the sun. And our 
solar system is undoubtedly but one of the many 
systems which go to make up the universe. 

But this world is made up of many seas, oceans, 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 5 

continents, etc., all of which are whole ones of them- 
selves. Each of these is composed of many parts, 
such as islands, lakes, rivers, gulfs, bays, etc., all of 
which are wholes within themselves. 

Then, too, these natural divisions have been di- 
vided up by man into parts called kingdoms, repub- 
lics, provinces, states, counties, etc; of these, too, it 
may be said they are whole ones. In these there 
are cities, towns, etc., and each of these are made 
up of many buildings, stores, churches, dwellings, 
etc. These also are made up of many parts, and 
each plank, board, spike and nail is a whole one. 
The people also of these cities are made up of fam- 
ilies and various organizations, lodges, etc. ; and 
then, too, these each are made up of individual mem- 
bers, all of which has many members within them- 
selves — hands, feet, eyes, ears, lungs, etc. — and so 
we see that throughout all nature all things are com- 
posed or made up of individual things, and the brain 
and mind are no exception to this rule. 

The mind is made up of over forty faculties and 
the brain of a corresponding number of organs which 
are instruments of thought and feeling, and no per- 
son ever did or can understand Hypnotism, Mesmer- 
ism, Clairvoyance or any of the occult sciences, 
aright, without a knowledge of these individual fac- 
ulties of mind. 

It is true many persons learn to hypnotize in a 
way, one person learning from another; but it is a 
very limited knowledge of the real scientific princi- 



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pies of the work, to what the practical Hypnotist and 
Magnetic Healer should have. 

To illustrate, the average person can go to the tele- 
phone and take down the receiver and communicate 
his thoughts to a distant friend, providing every- 
thing is all right; but if anything is wrong with the 
telephone, or battery, it requires an electrician or a 
mechanic who understands the mechanism and con- 
struction of the telephone before the best results 
can be hoped to be obtained. So it is with the 
hypnotist or magnetic healer who would be a credit 
to his profession; they must become familiar with 
the make-up of the human mind, for it is the mind 
more than anything else that they have to deal with. 
Without this knowledge of the mind they are like 
the person who is not an electrician or mechanic 
trying to fix the telephone — the work will be poorly 
done or possibly an entire failure. 

Phrenology is the best system of mental philoso- 
phy that we have ever had, and it is not yet a perfect 
science, but it is destined to become so. 

I have been a student of Phrenology for thirty- 
five years and have lectured on the subject much of 
my time for twenty-five years, and while I admired 
it as a science in progress, yet I could see that it 
was not yet a perfect science. 

MY WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. 

About two years ago (it now being the second day 
of January, 1907), while experimenting with some 



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subjects which I had hypnotized, I made a wonderful 
discovery, one that is destined to perfect the science 
of Phrenology and all of the occult sciences as well. 

I discovered a new faculty of mind which will 
not only perfect the science of Phrenology, but 
strikes the keynote of Hypnotism, Mesmerism and 
all of the occult sciences. 

MY DISCOVERY EXPLAINED. 

I discovered a faculty of mind which I have 
named The Self -Conscious Faculty. I had studied 
Hypnotism from many teachers, read all the books 
that I could get on the subject, and found that there 
were almost as many theories as authors, and from 
my knowledge of Phrenology or mental science, 
none of these teachings were the real truth. (And 
if there is any one thing that I prize above another it 
is Truth, be that truth what it may) . So I determined 
to find out the real truth concerning these mysterious 
powers of mind, which goes under the name of 
occult sciences. 

The faculty which I discovered is the most im- 
portant one in the human mind, because it is the 
one which makes all of the others really what they 
are. This may sound strange to you, dear readers, 
but let me explain : In all my instructions in Hyp- 
notism they spoke of the unconscious mind as if 
there were some faculties that were always uncon- 
scious and some that were always conscious. I knew 
from my knowledge of the mind that this was false 



8 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

teaching. My discovery reveals the fact that there 
is but one faculty that is a self-conscious faculty, 
and really it is not always conscious. When we go 
to sleep it sinks into unconsciousness, and the instant 
it goes to sleep all the other faculties are proven to 
be unconscious, because many of them may be awake 
and active and in just as good working order as ever. 
Memory may be awake and active and record every 
event of the dream as perfectly as if the whole mind 
were awake, yet unconscious, because self-conscious- 
ness is asleep. Causality may be awake and active 
and may trace out cause and effect with even greater 
facility than if all were awake, because of the ability 
to concentrate the mind on the one thing, the other 
faculties being asleep and not interfering with the 
concentration, and we might say the same with re- 
gard to every other organ or faculty, yet they do it 
without any conscious activity, but automatically. 

But if memory, or eventuality, has been awake, 
all is made conscious as soon as the self-conscious 
faculty awakes. But if memory has been asleep all 
is lost, because memory was the only organ that can 
recollect events and bring to the notice of the self-con- 
scious faculty the memories of the past, just as the 
self-conscious organ is the only organ that is self-con- 
scious ; yet, so long as it is awake and in good work- 
ing order, it gives to the entire mind perfect satis- 
faction so far as their conscious activity is con- 
cerned. 

But I have said this self-conscious organ, or fac- 
ulty, strikes the keynote to the occult sciences, as 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 9 

you will soon see, for when the person is hypnotized 
his self-conscious faculty is thrown into an uncon- 
scious condition, or into a deep sleep, which is really 
the meaning of the word hypnotism, and any one, 
or more, or all, of the other organs and faculties kept 
awake for the operator to play on, just as a musician 
would play upon a musical instrument. But re- 
member, there are degrees of hypnotism. In the 
first degree the subject's self-conscious faculty is not 
entirely in oblivion, but only in a stupor or semi- 
conscious state. In this stage he is in a more or 
less conscious condition. 

OTHER PROOFS OF THIS ORGAN. 

Another proof of the truth of this faculty is found 
in insanity; in fact, many persons who are insane 
are so because of the injury, or disease, of this organ 
of the brain, and, of course, other organs that lie 
near this one may be involved also, and the char- 
acter of this insanity will, of course, depend upon 
the number and kind of faculties involved, and 
whether or not there are any others involved. This 
of itself, if rendered unconscious, is sufficient to 
cause insanity of the worst degree, because if the 
individual has by nature an unbalanced brain he 
may be the most dangerous of men; that is, if the 
lower organs of the brain are strong and active and 
the top of the brain naturally weak. 

As there are many books on Phrenology describ- 
ing all of the organs of the brain, I will only give 



10 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

in this one a brief description of the organs of the 
brain, except those which are especially important 
in the occult sciences, and for the benefit of my 
readers I will give here a list of the books which I 
can fully recommend for everything, except the or- 
gan of the self-conscious faculty, which I will give 
a more lengthy description later on in this book, 
and will also give its location in the brain. 

The first book I would recommend to the reader 
is "How to Eead Character," by S. K. Wells (Fow- 
ler & Wells Co., K Y.). 

The next factor of importance in Hypnotism is 
ideality, or what might be called the imaginative 
power of mind. When a person gives you a de- 
scription of anything, or place, there comes to your 
mind an image or ideal of the thing or place de- 
scribed. 

This is the result of the action of the organ of 
ideality, and when the self-conscious organ is put to 
sleep by the hypnotist, an image of anything or per- 
son may be presented to the subject's mind by a 
simple suggestion of the thing or person. 

And even more vivid than when all the faculties 
are awake, because of the ability to concentrate the 
faculty on the one thing, person or place. When 
the subjects are hypnotized, the operator may have 
them imagine they see sights, hear any sound, music 
or anything that they may suggest that they see, 
hear or may have them have any kind of experience 
that any person ever did have, and they seem just as 
real to the subject as if they were going through the 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 11 

reality and gives just as much pleasure for the time 
as if they were actually going through the reality. 

The organs of the brain may be compared with 
the United States Senators. There are forty-two of 
them, and each one might be compared to a Senator 
from some one of the States. 

The self-conscious faculty may be compared to the 
Speaker of the House, whose duty it is to keep each 
Senator in his proper place. But what would the 
Senate be without a speaker? All would be con- 
fusion. So it is with the self-conscious faculty — 
the mind is without a controller. For while there 
are many other good and grand powers of mind, yet 
they are entirely unconscious of any action what- 
ever without this faculty. 

Every part of both body and brain has its special 
duty to perform. ISTo other organ or faculty can 
perform its duty, any more than the eye can perform 
the work of hearing, or the ear the duty of seeing. 

If any organ of brain is withheld from activity, 
its function is as certainly withheld from activity 
or manifestations. 

So long as all of the Senators are in their places 
we might expect good work to be done ; but, suppose 
all the Senators from the Western States would re- 
main out of their places for a day — the Eastern 
Senators might enact a law that would not be for 
the good of the Western States. So, if some of the 
organs of the brain are withheld from activity for 
a time, the rest of the brain may do crooked or im- 
perfect work. 



12 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

In the Senate only one of the Senators is allowed 
by the Speaker of the House to occupy the floor at 
a time ; so it is in the brain, the self-conscious organ 
only allows one faculty to manifest itself at a time; 
but others are always quietly paying attention to the 
work being done, just as the other Senators are pay- 
ing attention to the work being done by the Senator 
who occupies the floor, and especially is this true of 
the self-conscious faculty, just as it is necessary for 
the Speaker of the House to pay strict attention to 
every act of him who occupies the floor; but, sup- 
pose for any reason the Speaker of the House should 
become incapable to do this, the work of the Senate 
might not stop, but all would be confusion. So it is 
with the brain if the self-conscious faculty becomes 
incapable to act, all is confusion; but it does not 
always stop its activities, but, if it does not stop its 
activities, they are changed from a conscious to an 
unconscious activity, and the action will depend on 
who has the floor. If it is the faculty of language 
who occupies the floor, we expect an outburst of 
loquatious language jumbled together, possibly with- 
out any meaning, like a young man whom I had 
hypnotized in Denver a few years ago. I told him 
he was Bryan and that he was expected to make a 
speech to the convention, whereupon he bounded to 
his feet and spoke with as much vim and freedom 
of speech as Bryan could have done himself, yet 
without pith or point. 

If it is the faculty of mirthfulness who has the 
floor, we may expect to see the person giggle, laugh 



THE SELF-COXSCIOrs FACULTY OF MIND. 13 

or snicker as if all kinds of mirthful scenes or 
visions were passing before him, and especially is 
this true if the hypnotist suggests these mirthful 
scenes. But let the hypnotist suddenly change his 
suggestions of mirthful scenes to suggestions of fear 
or fright, and see how soon mirthfulness takes his 
seat and cautiousness bounds to his feet>, the smile 
or grin which but a moment ago was on the counte- 
nance has faded away and the face now wears an 
anxious look, for every faculty has what is called 
a f acel sign of the activity of its organ. 

Observe, too, the natural language of the faculty 
of cautiousness; see the restless, changeable immo- 
tion of the whole body; one instant he is ready to 
run, then, as if reinforcements had come, he takes 
a bold stand as if determined to stand his ground. 
You may wonder what has happened, but cautious- 
ness has taken his seat and combativeness has the 
floor, and we now see a boldness in his attitude which 
defies all opposition. And I might go through the 
whole catalogue and show every faculty of mind can 
be called into activity, except the self-conscious fac- 
ulty, and played upon just as you would play upon 
a musical instrument, without the subject being- 
aware that he is doing anything. But, of course, 
if the organ of eventuality has been awake and ac- 
tive, the subject will remember all that has tran- 
spired. 

!Now here you will need a word of explanation 
about this sleep: Hypnotism is said to be a deep 
sleep, but remember, it is an artificial sleep and may 



14 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

only affect the one organ of the self-conscious fac- 
ulty, or it may affect one or more or even all of the 
other organs, by withdrawing from activity the self- 
conscious faculty ; and right here is the importance of 
becoming acquainted with the various organs or fac- 
ulties of mind, so that you may keep those which 
you wish to operate upon awake, and keep those 
which you don't wish to operate upon asleep. You 
remember that Hypnotism is a thing of the mind, 
and that every phase of any of the occult sciences 
is brought about by the activity of some part of the 
brain, whether it affects the body or mind. If it 
is the body that we wish to affect, we must do it 
through some part of the brain; or if it is the mind 
we wish to influence, that must also be influenced 
through some part of the brain, for the brain is the 
organ or the instrument of the mind. So long as the 
self-conscious faculty is awake and in its normal con- 
dition, but little influence can be affected on either 
body or mind, because the mind is not easily swayed 
when this organ is awake, and especially if this 
organ is well developed. 

One of the properties of this organ is suavity, and 
if it is as large in the subject who is to be hypnotized 
as it is in the operator, then it is suavity arrayed 
against suavity and about an even contest, and espe- 
cially if the subject does not care to be hypnotized. 
But if he submits to be hypnotized, may be easily 
brought under the influence. 

A child ten years old might, by sitting in the cab 
of an engine watching the engineer, push and draw 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 15 

the levers which sets the engine in motion or stops 
it, might soon learn to do the same thing, and stop 
or start the engine, and yet not really know just how 
it did the work; and so it is with those who hypno- 
tize. They know they do it, but how they cannot 
tell, because they do not know. Each one has their 
theory and each one tells a story of their own, but 
I am satisfied that the truth has never yet been told. 
So I will now attempt to tell the truth about it, and 
will leave it to your judgment, dear reader, if I am 
not right about it, and I believe I can prove to the 
mind of any and all fair-minded readers that I have 
found out the real truth about it, if they will but 
take the pains to investigate the next chapter care- 
fully and persisently to the end. 

CHAPTER SECOND. 

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT HYPNOTISM. 

In explaining the principles of Hypnotism I want 
the reader to plainly understand that the mind is 
the all-important part of mankind. The body is like 
a lamp with reference to a light; the lamp may be 
good, and yet it is no good without the fire. So 
the body may be good, but without the mind it would 
be good for nothing. 

There is not a thing that we do but what we first 
do it in the mind. This may seem an extravagant 
assertion at first, but it is true nevertheless. The 
reason it seems to be untrue is because you don't yet 



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fully comprehend the self-concious faculty, many 
things we do when the self-conscious faculty is not 
active, consequently we are inclined to think that we 
do it without the mind's activity; but remember, 
there are many faculties which act voluntarily, or 
automatically, without being any more conscious of 
their activity than the alarm clock is conscious of 
awakening you in the morning; do it because they 
were made to do it thus without annoying the con- 
scious faculty; and when it is necessary that the 
conscious facutly should be active, they arouse it to 
action, just as your alarm clock aroused you when 
the proper time came, without being aware it did it 

We are now becoming acquainted with the human 
mind by studying its different parts, and we can't 
become too familiar with it, for it is the greatest 
thing we can study or become familiar with. And 
now let us consider some of the proofs of the ex- 
istence of this self-conscious faculty, for if you fail 
to get this great truth, you fail to get the first and 
all important principle of Hypnotism. 

There is one and only one faculty of mind that is 
conscious of activity; but the activity of this one 
makes the entire mind conscious just so long as it is 
active or on the alert. That is, it satisfies the entire 
mind so far as consciousness is concerned. Just 
as the eyesight satisfies the entire mind with sight, 
or the ear satisfies it with hearing. 

No two faculties perform the same functions; it 
is the function of this one to make its owner con- 
scious of existence or conscious of any or all other 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 17 

faculties of mind. When this one fails from any 
cause the individual is as deep in unconsciousness 
as he could possibly be in the dark if his eyesight 
failed him. 

Whenever unconsciousness comes, whether it be 
caused by a blow on the head, or by disease, sick- 
ness, death, or by the use of chloroform, ether, or 
whatever may be the cause, it is always instanta- 
neous, and yet some of the faculties may be in 
active operation showing when this faculty is stilled, 
it matters not what the cause may be, all conscious- 
ness is suspended until this organ comes into activity 
again, and then consciousness is as suddenly re- 
stored, although some of the other organs may still 
be incapable of activity. When sleep overcomes this 
faculty, or its organ, unconsciousness is the result, 
although many of the other organs may keep on 
actively engaged in thought for hours after conscious- 
ness has been suspended, or when the mind and brain 
has been satisfied with sleep. Oftentimes many of 
the organs become awake and actively engaged in 
thought and feeling before the self-conscious faculty 
becomes awake and active. 

Many times in my life my conscious faculty has 
been aroused to activity at or near the midnight 
hour, to find that many of my faculties were actively 
engaged and had been for hours, evidently from the 
record which memory had accurately kept, attempt- 
ing to solve some of the most weighty problems of 
life, or debating among themselves some of the deep- 
est questions that human mind could possibly think 



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of without any conscious activity, until the debaters 
became so enthusiastic that they woke the self-con- 
scious faculty. 

SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF DREAMS. 

Dreaming is nothing more or less than the activity 
of one or more of the organs of mind, when the self- 
conscious organ is asleep. The dream may be fin- 
ished all satisfactory and the entire mind go to 
sleep, or it may be broken off suddenly by all of 
the organs falling asleep; or it may continue, but 
not be remembered, because of memory being asleep ; 
or it may be broken off suddenly by the self-conscious 
organ becoming awake; the other faculties have all 
the experience, do all the thinking, while this one 
simply makes us conscious of that experience. 

The dreamer has an experience, and sometimes 
a very wonderful experience, and, although the mem- 
ory recollects it, yet he is not conscious of that ex- 
perience until the self-conscious faculty awakes, and 
even then would not if memory had not been awake. 

The same is true in Hypnotism; they may have 
a wonderful experience, and yet, if the Hypnotist 
withholds the memory from activity, they will not 
be conscious of that experience. 

Hypnotism is a magnetic sleep in which the self- 
conscious organ is especially put to sleep ; but many 
of the other organs may be kept awake and made 
to dream any kind of a dream that the hypnotist 
may suggest. 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 19 

All the other faculties are of themselves uncon- 
scious, just so long as the self-conscious faculty is in 
abeyance, and the subject may be made to have any 
experience that any human being ever did have, be- 
cause the entire mind may be used except this one 
faculty of self-consciousness, whose function it is 
to make us conscious of all our feelings and condi- 
tions of mind and body and to guide these move- 
ments accordingly. Whenever this organ is aroused 
to activity, the hypnotic influence is gone, just like 
the dream is gone, and for the same reason the 
entire mind is conscious because of the activity of 
this organ. In a natural dream no one is ever con- 
scious that they are really dreaming, because the 
self-conscious organ is always asleep, and when it 
awakes the dream is always at an end, whether it is 
finished or not, which is another proof of the truth 
of the only one conscious faculty. 

Whenever any one goes into unconsciousness, it is 
always instantaneous; this is always true whether 
it is caused by sleep, death, an injury, fainting, 
Hypnotism, or whatever may be the cause. The 
same is true when coming back to consciousness, it 
is always instantaneous; this is another proof of its 
being a single faculty, for if it belonged to more than 
one faculty it would not be instantaneous, but a 
gradual going into unconsciousness and a gradual 
coming out, as one faculty after another went in or 
came out of the unconscious condition. Then, too, 
when the self-conscious organ is asleep, many of the 
other organs which we would be inclined to think 



20 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

would be self-conscious, if indeed any others are self- 
conscious, are awake and active, such as the memory, 
the reasoning organs of causality and comparison. 
The perspective organs of size, weight, color, order, 
number, etc., these so-called intelligent organs, may 
be awake and in active operation, and many others, 
and yet the individual be altogether unconscious of 
their activities until the self-conscious organ comes 
into operation, and then memory reveals the fact 
that they had actually been in active operation by 
calling to mind their past activities and thoughts. 

Can anything be more convincing than this, of 
the fact of the one, and only one, self-conscious fac- 
ulty? And especially, when we remember that the 
reasoning organs and the organs of number often- 
times perform feats of logic and in the science of 
numbers that would be impossible for the person 
to do while the self-conscious organ was awake, 
simply because of the ability to concentrate the mind 
upon one thing until completed. This, too, explains 
why many persons when hypnotized can perform 
many things that they could not do when in their 
normal condition, because the concentrating power 
of the mind is greater when the self-conscious organ 
is in abeyance. 

In our greatest mental efforts the nearer we can 
withdraw from self-consciousness the greater will be 
our success. Yet it must all be planned or guided 
by our self-consciousness, or it may be like our 
dreams, oftentimes disjointed, or disconnected, be- 
cause if it is not planned or guided by the self- 



THE SEKF-COx\ T SCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 21 

conscious faculty, there is our ever-ready organ of 
imagination, which is always a blind guide and will 
lead us into all kinds of flights of the imagination. 
When a person is asleep this is our leader, and when 
we hypnotize a subject we lead the imagination by 
suggesting in any way or manner in which we may 
wish or desire. But the hypnotist should always 
understand the nature of all of the organs of the 
brain and all the faculties of the mind to give him 
the greatest success. In fact, he should be a practical 
phrenologist in order to properly size up his subject 
and know in what manner he would perform best, 
and then lead him in that direction. 

I am satisfied that much of my success as a hyp- 
notist is due to my knowledge of Phrenology, as I 
have studied it and practiced it for many years ; and 
it is due also to my knowledge of hypnotism, which 
lead to the discovery of this self-conscious faculty. 

The one science agrees with and proves the truth 
of the other, as all truth must agree and harmonize 
with every other truth. 

There is no possible way for accounting for the 
phenomena of Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Clairvoy- 
ance, and so forth, scientifically — except through par- 
tial manifestation of mind. And therefore, to under- 
stand it, we must study the mind by becoming 
familiar with its parts. 

Every thought that the person entertains, whether 
in the hypnotized condition or in the normal state, 
is brought about by the activity of one or more 
organs of the brain; and by a careful study of the 



22 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

nature of the thoughts the practical phrenologist may 
determine to a certainty what organ of the brain, or 
faculty of the mind, produced it. 

Therefore, the hypnotist who is a practical phren- 
ologist understands his subject thoroughly — for he 
can tell from the shape and configuration of the 
head of his subject what his capabilities are, and 
can show his talents and peculiarities off to the best 
advantage. 

If he should find his subject to be of musical turn 
of mind, and the general make-up of the person to 
tend toward refinement and taste, he may have the 
subject sing or play an instrument almost to per- 
fection while in the hypnotized condition; but if 
the subject is low, coarse, and of the animal type, 
he would not attempt to have him perform in that 
way, but would play upon the baser tones of his 
nature; for instance, have him imagine he was be- 
coming rich by gambling, or feasting on turkey and 
cranberry sauce, while in reality he would be vainly 
trying to eat a sauce of dry flour and puffing and 
blowing it all over the room. 

And if your subject is of a high moral character, 
with a high, wide head at the top of the brain, you 
may have him see and enjoy all the pleasures of 
Paradise. 

But some of my readers may say, Why all these 
deceptions ? And in answer to this I will say that 
I simply show you the manner of influencing your 
subject to show how the mind may be led and influ- 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 23 

enced in a similar way for their good and improve- 
ment and recovery from disease, etc. 

The mind is the overruling power of the body, 
and through its medium many of the defects of the 
body may be overcome. But before I proceed further 
on this point, let me tell you something of the influ- 
ence of mind over the body. Many of the diseases 
of the body are more of a mind infirmity than a 
bodily disease. But few people realize the influence 
of mind over the body in causing disease or curing 
it. Recent experiments have proved beyond a doubt 
that stout, healthy people can be made sick, or sick 
people be made well, simply through the medium 
of the mind, or what is called "Suggestive Thera- 
peutics." But we have a great accompanying influ- 
ence to go with the suggestive therapeutics in mag- 
netic treatment. 

Everyone's brain is like a magnetic battery. It is 
made up of many thousand cells, and these cells are 
constantly vibrating; in fact, everything in nature 
is constanly in motion; but the vibrations of mind 
and body should be in harmony to be in a healthy 
condition. But thoughts of sickness and disease are 
discord and invite disease and ill-health, while 
thoughts of health is harmony and drives away dis- 
ease and pain. 

Nothing is more natural than for a person in poor 
health to think of their sickness and continue the 
discord; while the magnetic healer can think the 
thoughts that will restore harmony and communi- 
cate it to the patient by the laying on of the hands. 



24 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

It was Christ's way of restoring health, and he fully 
appreciated the necessity cf the thoughts of health 
when he urged them to have faith, which is in reality 
expectation of health and recovery from sickness; 
and in some cases he upbraids them for not believ- 
ing, for not expecting. He says, "Oh,, ye of little 
faith." Now here is the importance of Hypnotism 
in healing the sick. When a person is hypnotized 
you can make them expect anything you suggest. 
And here is the importance of Suggestive Therapeu- 
tics, even without Hypnotism; for it is very hard 
for any one to doubt an assertion made by a person 
who fully believes that assertion himself; and espe- 
cially is it hard to doubt if that assertion be repeated 
and afterwards the same meaning affirmed in a little 
different manner and repeated again — it seems to 
sink into their very being and they cannot resist it. 
"As a man thinketh in his heart (or mind) so is 
he." If he thinks he is getting better he is getting 
better, and is certainly on the road to recovery; 
and the same may be said of the person who thinks 
he is getting sick, or getting worse, or that he is going 
to be sick. The mind will build the body in ac- 
cordance with the thoughts, whatever they may be, 
and will eventually destroy the body if thoughts of 
destruction are are persisted in. 

We are all free moral agents to think the thoughts 
we desire to think so long as the self-conscious fac- 
ulty is intact. But let that faculty be overcome by 
sleep, or by accident, or by the hypnotist's art, or by 
the doctor's anesthesia, whatever it may be, whether 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 25 

chloroform, morphine, ether, or anything else, and 
we are no longer a free moral agent to control our 
thoughts, until the self-conscious faculty again comes 
into activity. 

And it is a fact that when this faculty is entirely 
unconscious we cannot suffer pain until it again 
comes into activity. However great injury may be 
done to the person while in this condition he will not 
be conscious of any pain. 

So, you see, it is a very important faculty of mind 
—and from its very nature it is quite important 
that it be most of the time on the alert and active; 
yet there are times when it is also imporant that it 
be withdrawn from activity. 

We live in a world in which we often meet with 
dangers and difficulties, and for this reason we have 
the faculty cautiousness, but the faculty is not 
enough to keep us from every danger we encounter, 
for we are often overtaken by calamity and so 
severely injured that death would be the immedi- 
ate result were it not for the fact that the self-con- 
scious faculty is thrown into an unconscious condi- 
tion. It is a natural safety-valve to ward off the 
intense pain until it becomes bearable, for it is the 
mind that suffers pain; and the All Wise Creator 
has given us this faculty and made it thus easy for 
us to be thrown into an unconscious condition, that 
life be tided over a critical period of severe injury, 
or illness, until the danger has passed. The medical 
doctors have learned that various medicines, such as 
morphine, chloroform, etc., have the power of throw- 



26 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

ing this faculty into an uncon3cious condition; and 
yet, strange to say, they never discovered it was a 
separate faculty of mind. But these medicines are 
positively injurious to the person's health, while the 
hypnotist, without the use of any drugs, can effect 
the same result without any injury whatever to the 
patient. 

To the practical phrenologist, let me say, that this 
organ of brain occupies the space that was formerly 
allotted to what was believed to be a faculty by some 
phrenologists and doubted by others; and which, I 
think, I can fully demonstrate is but a certain phase 
of the organ in question. Turn, if you please, to 
page 116 of "Heads and Faces/' by kelson Sizer 
and H. S. Drayton, and read carefully the descrip- 
tion of agreeableness, or suavity. ]STow think for a 
moment, Who can be agreeable, or have much suav- 
ity, without this self-conscious faculty? Have you 
ever seen one hypnotized ? Have you observed how 
they were swayed by the operator? Not a particle 
of suavity about them because the self-conscious fac- 
ulty was in abeyance; and if any agreeableness — it 
was because it was produced by the suggestions of 
the operator or hypnotist. 

I attribute agreeableness more particularly to 
approbativeness being large and self-esteem only 
moderate, combined with a sweet temper, hope and 
mirthfulness. 

The larger the self-conscious organ is in any one, 
the more suavity he will have, other things being 
equal. 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 27 



This organ, like all others, is larger in some per- 
sons than in others, and it is always found large in 
those who have swayed the multitudes; while in 
those who have it only moderate or small, can sway 
or influence but little; and I have known persons 
with that organ so small, and coupled with small self- 
esteem, that they would lose their consciousness if 
compelled to speak in public. 

Both agreeableness and suavity are due to a com- 
bination rather than a single organ. 

But self-consciousness is undoubtedly the result 
of a single organ, and forms an important factor in 
both agreeableness and suavity, yet more particularly 
suavity. 

To prove this we have only to refer to the condi- 
tion of the subject whose self-conscious organ is in 
abeyance, and we see that there is little or no agree- 
ableness manifested; and especially is this true of 
suavity. So I have not the least hesitancy in say- 
ing that this is the location of the self-conscious 
organ at what was formerly called agreeableness. 
And I believe it is at this point only that we are all 
conscious of the activity of the brain when engaged 
in thought. 

isTow consider the person who is thoroughly hyp- 
notized and while he is not at all conscious of what 
he is doing, and, as I have said, void of these quali- 
ties above mentioned, yet many of the other talents 
are capable of wonderful accomplishments. 

The finest singing I ever heard was done by a 
young lady while she was hypnotized. I hypnotized 



28 THE SELF-CONSCIOITS FACULTY OF MIND. 

her and had her performing many amusing things 
before a large audience ; after some time I suddenly 
changed my manner of suggestions and said we 
would go to church, telling her that there were fine 
singers there and that she should sing with them; 
then I announced that they were to sing "Nearer, 
My God, to Thee" ; she began singing and far sur- 
passed her natural ability, to the perfect delight of 
the whole audience. And after I brought her out 
of the hypnotic spell, she said, "I wish you could al- 
ways control me when I sing; I enjoyed that singing 
more than any other part of the entertainment to- 
night." She imagined the whole congregation were 
singing with her, while in reality she was singing 
alone. 

Hypnotism is a partial manifestation of mind in 
which the self-conscious faculty is always inactive, 
made so by the operator, or hypnotist. It is not a 
hard task to do this if we only understand the nature 
of the faculties; we can call into activity any of 
them that we wish to, or can withhold any one of 
them from activity. 

Do you ask how we can do this ? Let me give 
you one suggestion. Perhaps my readers are as 
familiar with the faculty of mirthfulness as with 
any faculty. If I wished to call it into activity in 
the minds of all my readers or hearers, I would 
relate an amusing anecdote, or tell a very funny or 
witty story; but, suppose I wished to withhold it 
from activity, then I would go to the other extreme. 
But as there are over forty faculties, and all are 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 29 

different and differently affected, you may see the 
necessity of becoming acquainted with them all to 
be able to control them. If you are really inter- 
ested and wish to become familiar with the faculties 
of the mind I would suggest that you study "How 
to Eead Character/' by Fowler & Wells Co. (Pub.), 
N. Y. ; also "Heads and Faces," by the same com- 
pany. (The price of the former is $1.00 and the 
latter 40 cents). 

ISTot more than one faculty can be exercised in 
its best and most perfect condition at the same time ; 
this is the reason why any one who is hypnotized 
can accomplish things when they are under the hyp- 
notic spell that they cannot do while in their normal 
condition, because they can concentrate the whole 
mind on the one faculty. But when the self-con- 
scious faculty is active, any one of the others may 
be active at the same time, but neither can be at its 
best. Sometimes three or more may be see-sawing 
at the same time; as when an operator in a tele- 
graph office is receiving and taking down a dispatch 
at once, with his self-conscious faculty at work at 
the same time. But this is dividing the mind up 
too much, and requires a great deal of practice to 
do it, and then mistakes are liable to be made, so 
that the companies will not insure correctness with- 
out its being sent both ways, or returned the same as 
sent. We can do reasonably good work with both 
the self-conscious and any one of the other faculties 
active at the same time, because we practice this 
almost every hour of our lives. But when the clair- 



30 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

voyant wishes to accomplish that which she cannot 
do in her normal condition, she withdraws from 
consciousness, or, in other words, makes her self- 
conscious organ inactive for the time being and 
throws the entire power of the mind upon the one 
organ necessary to accomplish the thing desired. 

This, you see, gives concentration of mind which 
is impossible to get while the self-conscious organ is 
active. And we may say that (to withdraw from 
the self-conscious faculty) is the secret of success 
in all of the occult sciences, so that we may have the 
concentration of mind. 

This is the all-important factor in accomplishing 
any great mental feat. 

If you think this is not true, try to listen to the 
conversation of two or three people talking at the 
same time and see how important it is to keep the 
mind centered on one thing at a time until com- 
pleted. Or try relating two anecdotes at the same 
time, by telling one sentence alternatively of each 
one until they are completed. 

Some writers on this subject have tried to con- 
vince their readers that there were many faculties 
of the mind, which they termed the "unconscious 
mind," and which they describe as always acting 
unconsciously, as if their action was always uncon- 
scious. But this is false teaching. Every faculty 
of the mind is made conscious by the activity of this 
self-conscious organ; all are unconscious when this 
one is inactive. 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 31 
NO NEW FACULTIES NECESSARY. 

l\ r o new faculties aside from these already discov- 
ered and described, and the one I have discovered, 
need be conjured up to account for any of the activi- 
ties or accomplishments of the human mind. 

With this new one added to those already de- 
scribed in our phrenological works makes Phren- 
ology a perfect mental science. With a thorough 
understanding of these we can account for every 
phase of human character. A few words here may 
be necessary for the reader to understand the impor- 
tance of a knowledge of this kind. It gives one a 
knowledge of self which he cannot get from any 
other source, and self-knowledge is considered the 
very best of education. Phrenology should be taught 
in every school in the land. Is it not a fact that 
every person judges from his or her standpoint. If 
their knowledge of self is imperfect, their knowledge 
of every other subject is almost as imperfect. If 
their knowledge of self is good, they have a good 
standpoint from which to view and judge all other 
subjects. 

The great masses of mankind of to-day are very 
ignorant of themselves, and especially of the make- 
up of their own minds. I am aware that if they 
should read this in this book they would doubt the 
statement — but, let me illustrate: The ancients 
studied the planets and stars and undoubtedly sup- 
posed they knew their movements quite well. But 
they were not aware of their being hurled through 



32 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

space at the rate of over one thousand miles per 
hour by the movement of the planet on which they 
lived. So they had a movable and variable stand- 
point from which to make their calculations, and 
believed the sun revolved around the earth instead 
of the earth around the sun. They were like the 
colored preacher w T ho came up from the South a few 
years ago and preached in Pittsburg. During his 
sermon he said he believed all the scientists were 
crazy. He said, "They claim that the earth turns 
around and that the sun stands still, and the moon 
goes around the earth. Well, now, anybody can see 
that the earth don't turn around and the sun don't 
stand still, but they are all right about the moon ; so, 
you see, they are all right once and all wrong twice." 

So we must remember and study well the stand- 
point from which we judge. iSTo two minds are ex- 
actly alike, and hence no two persons see anything 
from the same standpoint. 

Persons whose heads are wide across from ear 
to ear, in proportion to the height and width at the 
top of the head, are inclined to look at things from 
a selfish standpoint, because the selfish organs in 
that case are strong and influential. 

But persons whose heads are high and wide at 
the top, in proportion to the width at the base of 
the brain, are comparatively free from selfish 
thoughts and deeds, because the moral faculties at 
the top of the brain are stronger than the selfish 
qualities. If the back part of the head is wide and 
extends back far behind the ears, it indicates a 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 33 

strong social tendency, because the social qualities 
are all located in the back of the head. But if it 
is narrow and contracted from the ears backward, 
it shows a lack of sociability. If the front part of 
the head in front of the ears is wide, it shows me- 
chanical skill and ingenuity, inventive genius, and 
also economy, because this is the location of these 
powers of mind. 

If this part, of the head is narrow in proportion 
to the remainder of the head, these talents will not 
be good. If the forehead extends far out in front 
of the ears, it indicates intelligence and capability 
for education. If the lower part of the forehead 
is more prominent than the upper part, the person 
will be more of an observer than a thinker; but if 
it is the reverse, he will be more of a reasoner than 
an observer. If the top of the forehead is wider 
than the lower part, it shows that the person has 
the self-conscious faculty well developed and also 
the imitative and the mirthful faculty, with a lively 
imagination. But if the lower part is the widest, 
the musical talent is good, with good order and good 
mathematical capacity. If the top of the head is 
as high in front of the ears as it is behind them, 
it indicates a rather amiable disposition, very benevo- 
lent and kind. But if the head rises extremely high 
behind the ears, it will be the reverse ; the person will 
be domineering, and if wide about the ears also, he 
will be cruel and unforgiving. 

Now, this is just describing the head in a general 
way, and also the character; and if you will look 



34 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

around you among your friends, and also your ene- 
mies (if you have any), you will find that their 
character will correspond with what I have said 
about the shape of the head, and also that the shape 
of the head will correspond with what I have said 
about character. 

But, of course, it is only describing it in a gen- 
eral way, for I have so much other subject-matter 
I have not the time nor space to go into details. 
Suffice it to say that if you become thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the forty-two faculties of the mind, 
and their location in the brain, you will be surprised 
to find how well you can read the characters and 
dispositions of those whom you meet, although they 
may be strangers to you. 

We find another proof of the one, and only one, 
faculty of self-consciousness in somnambulism. 
Oftentimes the sleep-walker (as he is called) gets 
out of his bed and walks on narrow and dangerous 
places in perfect safety, if he is not interrupted 
and disturbed, and goes to bed again without any 
consciousness of having done anything. But, if he 
be awakened on this dangerous place, is sure to fall; 
the reason of this is, when he is performing this 
feat, the faculty of weight, which enables him to 
balance well, is active; and when the faculty of 
self-consciousness comes into activity, the other be- 
comes inactive and he loses his balance and falls. 

We often see the same principle in little children, 
especially those who are afraid of strangers. If they 
come near a stranger, and they turn their eyes upon 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 35 

them, they at once come into possession of their 
self-conscious position and are almost sure to fall 
on the floor, not being able to hold to both faculties 
at the same time strong enough to keep their equi- 
librium. 

A few years ago a lady was standing by the brink 
of the Niagara Falls, gazing into the waters as they 
poured over the precipice, evidently admiring the 
grandeur of the scene, when she suddenly fell over 
the precipice; and it was announced in the papers 
that the waters had hypnotized her. Dozens of 
people fall from high and dangerous places every 
month, and it is the generally accepted belief that 
they committed suicide. But it is nothing of the 
kind, in most instances. They lose, to a degree, 
their self -consciousness, and, in their desperate effort 
to regain it, they lose their equilibrium and fall. 

In making the assertion that there is only one 
self-conscious faculty, I am aware that I will be 
met with opposition, because there are so many 
people who judge from appearances ; like the colored 
preacher who thought because the sun appeared to 
go around the earth it must be so; and this same 
wrong idea was shared by the whole world for many 
centuries before they arrived at a correct understand- 
ing of their movements; and so I am not surprised 
that a wrong idea has prevailed for so long a time 
about the nature of the mind. For mankind has 
ever been studying and investigating everything else, 
but have neglected the investigation of their own 



36 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

minds until quite recently. So the real nature of 
mind has not been understood. 

Hypnotists believed that because there were facul- 
ties that were unconscious when the persons were 
hypnotized, they were always unconscious. But the 
discovery of the self-conscious faculty reveals the 
fact that as soon as this faculty becomes active that 
the action of every power of mind is made con- 
scious through its activity. 

When we become fully acquainted with this self- 
conscious faculty, all will be made plaint about the 
occult sciences, so that they will no longer be occult. 
And it is my object in this book to make my readers 
familiar with it. But, in so doing, I will undoubt- 
edly make some statements which will look doubtful 
to some of my readers at first — but remember, this 
is only natural. 

The first assertion that the earth revolved in space 
looked doubtful to all who heard it, and still looks 
so to the person who hears it for the first time. So, 
don't be doubtful about my assertion, because it 
does not look reasonable at first, before you have 
heard all the facts concerning it. 

Thus far I have spoken of the self-consciousness 
of the mind as being one, and in one sense it is but 
one, and yet in another sense it may be considered 
as having parts (for you will remember the illus- 
tration which I gave of the earth and all things be- 
ing made up of parts, but I did not carry out this 
illustration to its extreme limit; for we might keep 
on in our imagination, dividing up the earth until 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 37 

we came to the smallest atom of which the imagina- 
tion could conceive of, and yet each one would be a 
whole; and so it is with all nature, there appears 
to be no limit of the divisions which might bo 
made). 

So while we regard the self-conscious faculty of 
mind as being but one, yet it is composed of two 
parts. One, relating to the consciousness of mind; 
and the other, relating to the consciousness of the 
body. And they can, and do, act independently of 
each other, just as one part of the hand or foot may 
act independently of the other parts. So we wish 
to be understood, that it is but one faculty, but has 
different phases. And these different phases can 
be better undestood by studying them under the 
influence of Hypnotism. 

To illustrate: Under the influence of a powerful 
medicine, like morphine or chloroform, the entire 
faculty is withdrawn from activity; or with a blow 
on the head sufficient to destroy the consciousness 
of mind will also withdraw the consciousness of pain 
and the consciousness of all bodily activities. 

But when a person is hypnotized only the con- 
sciousness of the mind's activities are withdrawn, 
and the person still retains the consciousness of the 
activities of the body and also is conscious of all 
the pains and bodily pleasures. But, after the 
person has been hypnotized and his self-conscious- 
ness of mind has been withdrawn, then the hypnotist 
can withdraw his consciousness of the bodily pains; 
and can withdraw, for the time, all possibility of his 



38 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

feeling pain; and can make his body stiff and rigid 
— almost like a bar of iron — so that he can hold up 
a weight that would crush almost every bone in his 
body if in his normal condition ; yet, in the hypnotic 
state, he can do all this without any injury. 

THE FACULTIES OF MAN COMPARED WITH THOSE OF 
THE LOWER ANIMALS. 

The superiority of man's mind over that of the 
lower animals does not consist so much in their 
having better qualities of mind as it does in their 
having a greater number and greater variety of 
facilities. 

The faculties of mind, whose organs are located 
in the base of the brain, are almost exactly alike in 
the human mind to those in the lower animals, and 
are apparently no stronger in the human mind than 
in the lower animals ; but the faculties whose organs 
are located half way from the base to the top of the 
brain, many of them are left entirely out of the 
brain of the lower animals. Some are left entirely 
out of one kind of animals and are strong in other 
species. Acquisitiveness, or the faculty which gives 
a disposition to lay up store for future use, is large 
and active in the ground squirrel; and, in fact, in 
all of the squirrel species; but it is entirely lacking 
in the horse, cow, or hog. The musical talent, situ- 
ated scarcely half way up in the human brain, and 
which is to some degree active in all of the human 
kind, is entirely wanting in ail the animals, but is 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. S\) 

strongly marked in some birds and lacking in others. 
The mirthful faculty, which is a little above the 
half-way line, and is found developed to some de- 
gree at least in all of the human kind, is entirely 
left out of all the birds and beasts. It is true the 
parrot sometimes laughs, but it is only his imitative 
ability, which he has in a marked degree, and this 
organ is situated still a little higher up in the human 
brain than mirthfulness. Cautiousness is situated 
about half-way up and it is common to all of the hu- 
man kind, as well as to beasts and birds, though 
stronger in some than in others. The faculties, whose 
organs are located in the top of the brain, are com- 
mon only to the human kind, except firmness, which 
is very strong in the mule. 

So, you see, by this comparison of the human mind 
with that of the lower animals, that there is a great 
difference in their capacities in some respects, and 
yet in some respects the animals may equal, if not 
surpass, that of the human race, as in the case of the 
horse in respect to the faculty of locality: they can 
keep their direction and find their way out of the 
woods on a dark and foggy day better than his mas- 
ter, and often, when his rider is lost and is so com- 
pletely turned around that he does not know the way 
home, or which is east, west, north, or south, if he 
will let the horse have the reins he will go directly 
home, while perhaps the rider imagines he is going 
from home. 

The front part of the organ, of the self-conscious 
faculty, is given to the activities of the self-conscious- 



40 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MI1STD. 

ness of the mind of mankind, but this part of the or- 
gan is entirely left out of all of the lower animals. 
But the back part of the organ is given to the con- 
sciousness of bodily activities, and is common to all 
of the lower animals, as well as to the human kind. 

When we consider the nature of the mind of the 
lower animals and the limited number of faculties we 
find that part of the faculty which gives self-con- 
sciousness of mind would be of little or no use to 
them, but that part which gives self-consciousness of 
bodily activities is extremely necessary ; for, without 
it, they could not feel pain or wouldn't guard against 
injury. Even plants and vines seem to exhibit a kind 
of intelligence. The wild cucumber, the watermelon, 
and the pumpkin, all reach out their little tendrils 
several inches to grasp a weed or anything they can 
get hold of, and twine around it with considerable 
show of intelligence, to keep the winds and storms 
from blowing them away, but do you think for a mo- 
ment that they are conscious of this act on their part ? 
The man who is hypnotized uses his mind in the same 
way without any effort or knowledge of what he is 
doing. That is the advanced degrees of the hypnotic 
spell or sleep. The act of hypnotizing a person does 
not affect any of the faculties of the mind, except this 
one — the self-conscious faculty. However, all of the 
other faculties may then be affected and operated on 
in any manner that the hypnotist wishes, because 
they are unconscious and at his services, except to do 
that which is believed by the hypnotized person to be 
wrong or unjust; for it must be remembered that we 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. ^1 

all have a faculty which loves right, and it acts just 
as faithful when the self-conscious is asleep as it 
does when that faculty is awake. Now, this is posi- 
tive evidence that the faculties can and does do as 
good work when the self-conscious faculty is in abey- 
ance as when it is in full sway. However, it must 
be remembered that other faculties are of a different 
nature, and can be very easily led into wild and ex- 
travagant beliefs; for they are investigators and en- 
terprising and ever ready to try any new or novel sug- 
gestion, and they especially need the restraining in- 
fluence of the self-conscious faculty; they are en- 
thusiasts, and are always ready to do too much if not 
held in check and controlled by the self-conscious fac- 
ulty. This, then, is the duty of the self-conscious 
faculty — to restrain and control — and, acting in con- 
nection with the reasoning organs or faculties (which 
are its near neighbors in the brain), guide these en- 
terprising enthusiasts aright. 

Every faculty is a lover of something, but they dif- 
fer vastly in the object of their affections. Conscien- 
tiousness loves right and justice, and when it is the 
strongest and most influential faculty of any one's 
character they cannot be turned from that which they 
believe to be right, whether the person is hypnotized 
or not, and if such a person was urged to do that 
which they believed to be wrong they would likely 
come out of the hypnotic spell, because they would 
naturally appeal so strongly to the self-conscious fac- 
ulty as to wake it up. 

The self-conscious faculty does not reason; it sim- 



42 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

ply controls the reasoning faculties and sees that the 
reasoning faculties clo the reasoning and not allow the 
imagination nor the destructive faculty to take the 
place of reason. But now, keeping this explanation 
in view, let us consider what an individual would be 
without this organ of mind. He would be a maniac 
of some description ; but the hind would depend upon 
the kind of a makeup his other faculties were. If he 
had a favorable combination he would be harmless; 
but, if combativeness and destructiveness were the 
leading faculties, he would be blood-thirsty. We 
often hear people remark of those who have taken the 
life of another, "There must have been something 
wrong with him or he never would have done the 
deed; or, he acted very curiously." Now, what is 
wrong, or that which makes him act curiously, is the 
destruction or the suspension, for the time being, at 
least, of the self-conscious faculty; for it is very sel- 
dom that a human being takes the life of another un- 
less the self-conscious faculty is for the time inactive. 
The same may be said of suicides. 

It is hard for the average person to tell whether 
another is insane or not, and even experts are puzzled 
to know, because they are not familiar with the self- 
conscious faculty. Insanity is almost invariably 
caused by either the destruction, or suspension, of 
this faculty of mind, and often others also are in- 
volved. 

But now let us consider what an individual would- 
be with only this one faculty destroyed. The average 
person would say "He acts curiously," and that is 



THE SELF-COXSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. '43 



about all they could say of him. He is still in pos- 
session of his reason, and can reason effectually ; yet 
he doesn't know when he reasons or when he does not. 
If his social organs are good, he enjoys the society of 
his friends. If mirthfulness is good, he laughs and 
enjoys fun, in a degree; and so of all the other or- 
gans, except this one power of mind — he is simply 
unconscious of what he does or thinks. All of the 
other organs of the brain will come into activity at 
random or as their environments may suggest to 
them, or as their strongest and most influential or- 
gans may lead them. 

Now, my readers may wonder why it is that if an- 
imals are void of this self -consciousness of mind that 
they are not always crazy. And, in answer to this, 
I will say that it is not simply a lack of this self -con- 
sciousness that makes one crazy, but, with the great 
variety of faculties, it is extremely necessary that 
they should have the self-conscious faculty to control 
them; but, the lower animals having a more simple 
combination of faculties, they do not need the self- 
consciousness of mind. 

Mankind having a greater variety of faculties and 
a combination of powerful passions, which produces 
in their minds a longing for greed, power, ambition, 
wealth and honor ; powers of mind which can scarcely 
be controlled with all of their self -consciousness and 
with all of the restrictions that can be put upon them 
by law and order besides, therefore, it is necessary 
that they should have this self -consciousness of mind ; 
but, like our winter clothing, there are times when 



4:4 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

we are better off without it, yet we do not wish to 
dispense with it altogether. Some people can lay 
aside their self-conscious faculty, temporarily, almost 
as easy as they can their winter clothing. The clair- 
voyant can lay it aside at will, and do that which 
would be impossible to do while it was active, and 
they can afterwards take it up at will. 

Many people have the self-conscious faculty so 
small or so weak that it will become inactive very 
easy. 

I was once working in a harvest field (for I, like 
all other great men, was raised on a farm and a few 
other vegetables), where they were cutting grain with 
a header. I was driving a team hitched to the wagon 
with the header-box on, while a German by the name 
of Smith was loading the grain on the box as it came 
up from the header, and, being on a very steep hill- 
side and the load top-heavy, upset the wagon very 
suddenly. I was afraid of going under the load and 
jumped, but the box set up on its edge and the wagon 
righted itself ; then the horses started to run and ran 
several rods before I could stop them. When I re- 
turned to the load I asked the other man where Mr. 
Smith was. They said they did not know, so I dug 
him out from under about two feet of loose straw 
which had covered him up, and, as I dragged him 
out, he came to consciousness again. I asked him if 
he was hurt and he said "No." Then I said, "Why 
didn't you come out of the straw ?" "Why," he an- 
swered, "I wasn't a-tinkin' anyt'ing." 

When persons are very suddenly brought to some 



THE SELF-COXSCIOL'S FACULTY OF MIND. 45 

great danger some lose all self-consciousness, both 
of mind and body, and just simply do nothing, or, 
like the German, "tink" nothing. Others retain con- 
sciousness of mind but not of the body, and, while 
they are fully aware of the danger, yet cannot make 
any effort to escape it. Others lose all consciousness 
of mind, yet retain the conscious activities of the 
body. 

During the Civil War I had two brothers in the 
24th Iowa Regiment, and they said at one time their 
regiment was ordered to take a transport and go 
around by water from one part of the country to an- 
other. A terrible storm came up during their voyage, 
so that the ship was in great danger of being lost, and 
many of the soldiers were panic-stricken and lost 
their conscious activities of mind. The waves were 
washing over the hurricane deck and great quantities 
of water was getting into every part of the vessel. 
One Irishman was staggering back and forth and 
saying all the while, "There is dead loads of water 
here, there is dead loads of water here." Another 
soldier had a rope and was binding himself to the 
anchor of the ship, while another man, whose self- 
conscious faculty was strong and active, but whose 
piety was evidently not the best, said to the man 
with the rope, "You d fool, what are you bind- 
ing yourself to the anchor for ?" "Why," he said, 
"the ship is liable to go down at any minute." "Why, 

you d fool, don't you know that if the ship sinks 

the anchor will sink, too ?" 

There is one peculiarity about hypnotism: that is, 



46 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

that the person does not realize the condition of mind 
he is in when hypnotized, and therefore doesn't know 
when he is hypnotized that he is under its influence. 
And, even after he comes out from under its influ- 
ence, can scarcely realize he has been hypnotized — 
just as sometimes we can hardly realize that we have 
been asleep. Therefore, it is possible for a person to 
be hypnotized and yet not know it, unless he is told 
of it. 

There are times when persons who are susceptible 
to its influence will be influenced to buy articles 
which they do not want. For instance, clerks often 
over-persuade people to buy, because they are in the 
first degree of hypnotism, and neither they nor the 
clerk are aware of it. This is a condition of mind in 
which (while the self-conscious faculty is still to 
some extent active), while they know they are buy- 
ing, yet in a philosophic sense their self -consciousness 
is overpowered by their beliefs in what the clerk has 
said, for very likely the clerk has said something 
like this: "Here is a beautiful ribbon; it is just 
what you want ; it just matches your new spring hat, 
and it is so becoming to you ; it suits your complexion 
and you ought to have it, and it is so very cheap ; you 
really need it, and you ought to buy it." Now, with 
all of these positive assertions and with the self-con- 
scious faculty almost inactive, they buy. And as 
soon as the self-conscious faculty asserts itself they 
are aware that they have bought something they do 
not want. 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 47 
CLAIRVOYANCE. 

There are a few people who are sensitive and are 
so finely and delicately organized as to be able to 
withdraw from the self-conscious faculty, and then 
being so sensitive to all outward influences as to do 
many wonderful things, even to foretelling the fu- 
ture events, for "coming events cast a shadow before 
them/' and these shadows can be sensed and inter- 
preted with a wonderful degree of perfection and ac- 
curacy by a good sensitive. 

It is but the action of our natural faculties of 
mind which we air have, but we are not all so fine- 
grained as to be successful in this particular; yet 
many might be fairly good if they would but prac- 
tice the concentrating of the mind and withdrawing 
from the self-conscious faculty, for, while it is a 
grand and good faculty, yet it is in opposition to 
faith and expectation. 

Now, this is a statement which may seem strange 
to you, dear reader, but the faculties are set, two 
against two, and yet all are good — there are no bad 
faculties, but only bad combinations. 

To illustrate, there is combat iveness, which gives 
energy of character, and this is a good quality, for 
without it we would be lazy and indolent; yet, if it 
is not restrained by another quality of mind, it would 
become quarrelsome and contentious, for no quality 
controls itself. So we see cautiousness set in direct 
opposition to combativeness, which restrains too great 
activity of combativeness. 



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THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 



Now, these two powers of mind hold each other in 
their proper places; like the centrifugal and centri- 
petal forces in nature which holds the planets in their 
proper places, or like the positive and negative in 
electricity. So we say that the self-conscious faculty 
is opposed to faith, belief, or expectation. Do you 
wonder why there should be a faculty which is in di- 
rect opposition to faith, when faith is so commend- 
able and so necessary to the Christian character ? To 
realize the importance of an opposing element in our 
nature to faith we have only to look about us and 
see how many blind beliefs there have been, and still 
are, in the world. Look at history's pages and you 
will see that the ancients believed in many gods; 
some believed in worshipping the Golden Calf, some 
believed in fire or sun worship, etc. ; but let us come 
down to the present time and we see that there is 
much misdirected faith; in fact, the great majority 
of it is on the wrong side of the scale, if the Christian 
belief is correct. 

And what would it be if it were not for the self- 
conscious faculty? If it was not for that faculty 
people could be made to believe anything. Hundreds 
of times I have hypnotized persons and made them 
believe they were sailing in an airship, away above 
the clouds. I have made them believe that they saw 
me plant a peach seed and in less than five minutes 
believed they were gathering and eating both peaches 
and apples from the tree which grew from that peach 
seed. 

There is not one faculty of mind which could be 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 49 

dispensed with without the character suffering great 
loss, and especially the self-conscious faculty as it 
affects all others by witholding the self -consciousness. 
Some of the lower faculties in the brain might be 
dispensed with without seriously affecting either the 
mind or the character of the individual. 

I once knew a physician who was kicked on the 
head by a horse ; both feet struck at once on each side 
of his forehead at the location of the faculty of Order 
and entirely destroyed that faculty of mind; yet he 
lived and practiced medicine for many years after- 
wards. He was very successful, yet was very pe- 
culiar because he had no order or system to his work, 
instead of keeping his medicines on a shelf or in 
drawers, as other doctors do, he kept them strewn all 
over the floor of his office. He would pick up a bottle 
and go walking about compounding his medicine and 
would set the bottle down wherever he happened to 
be; then, when he wanted it again, he never knew 
where to find it. 

As I was interested in the study of character, I 
would often go to his office to study his disposition, 
and once, when he was hunting for a certain medi- 
cine, I asked him why he did not put it always in the 
same place, so he would know where to get it, and he 
replied, "Oh, I just put it wherever it comes handy." 

People who did not understand Phrenology be- 
lieved him to be crazy when they saw the plight of 
his office. Persons of refinement were ashamed to let 
it be known that he was their physician ; and yet he 



50 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

had a fine practice because he was so successful in his 
profession. 

Now, I do not want the reader to think that be- 
cause the self-conscious faculty is in opposition to 
the combination which gives faith, that it destroys 
or injures it, but rather, that it makes it sound and 
stable. 

Phrenology is a system of mental philosophy. To 
illustrate, if Combativeness is larger than Cautious- 
ness, it will counteract the influence of Cautiousness ; 
but if Cautiousness is stronger than Combativeness, 
then it will put a check on Combativeness. 

So, you see, if the self-conscious faculty is stronger 
than the combination that produces faith, it will pre- 
vent the person from believing too much, and, if the 
faculty of Causality is also well developed, it will 
prevent him from believing that which is unreason- 
able and untrue. But, if the other -combination is 
stronger, the individual is likely to have faith or be- 
lief in Paganism, Buddism, Mormonism and so 
forth. 

The faculties can only be cultivated and directed 
aright by the individual becoming familiar with the 
faculties and their combinations — and therefore the 
necessity of studying Phrenology. 

The brain is unquestionably the most important 
part of the physical person, and why not make it a 
special study through Phrenology, as it is the only 
true science of mind. It now explains every pecu- 
liarity of human character and shows each individual 
what he is and what he ought to be, and how he may 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 51 

improve and develop, by cultivation, all weak or- 
gans and restrain bad or deficient tendencies in char- 
acter. 

The brain is double ; one organ of the same kind on 
each side — as there is one eye or one ear on each 
side. Wherever we find a brain center or organ on 
one side, there is another just like it at the corre- 
sponding place on the other side of the brain. About 
one and three-quarter inches above the ear is the or- 
gan of Secretiveness ; one on each side of the brain; 
its use is to supply a natural covering for the mind. 
It is as necessary for the mind to have a covering as 
for the body to restrain the mind from telling or 
making known its thoughts until the self-conscious 
faculty and the intellect has determined that it is 
proper to be told. 

The wider the head is at this point in proportion 
to its other parts, the more secretive the person will 
be ; for, as the different faculties of mind are called 
into activity, they use these organs of brain, and, as 
they are brought into activity, they grow outward 
from the center of the brain or from the Modula- 
Obongata, which is always located at the point just 
half-way between the opening of the ears, and they 
extend from this point to the front, back, sides and 
top of the head in somewhat the shape of a cone with 
the large end outward. The skull also grows and 
makes room for the growth of the brain, just as the 
scalp grows larger to make room for the growth of 
the head. But the organs of the brain often grow out 
farther in one part of the brain than in others, be- 



52 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

cause some of the organs are more active than others. 
So the shape of the head is in accordance with what- 
ever the activities of the brain has been. Therefore, 
those who make themselves familiar with the facul- 
ties of mind and organs of the brain can read from 
the present shape of the head the past history of 
those whom they come in contact with. 

Just in front of the organs of secretiveness is lo- 
cated the organ of Acquisitiveness, which gives a 
disposition to acquire wealth in all its forms and to 
lay up a liberal supply for old age. Secretiveness 
is a great help to Acquisitiveness in the accumula- 
tion of property. 

These are two very influential faculties at the pres- 
ent time, shown by the great struggle for the accumu- 
lation of wealth ; they are legitimate faculties, given 
by the Giver of every good and perfect gift, that we 
may make a wise provision for the future by laying 
up for future needs and by economy ; for it is through 
these faculties that prompts to all acts of economy 
and thrift. Without these faculties we would be 
satisfied with present needs and would not lay up 
store for future use. Some are lacking in these 
qualities, and, while they may have average strength 
and ability in other respects, yet would starve if it 
was not for the provision of others. 

Now, we have shown that these are good and use- 
ful qualities of mind, but if they are not controlled 
and counteracted by other and higher faculties, may, 
and oftentimes do, lead one to do some of the vilest 
and most inhuman acts. If not controlled by the 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 53 

organ of Conscientiousness, they will steal that they 
may possess the coveted wealth, and when not con- 
trolled by the faculty of Benevolence may lead to 
murder for the purpose of obtaining other's wealth; 
and especially, if Destructiveness is large and Con- 
scientiousness be small. So, you see, it is necessary 
to study the combinations as well as the faculties 
themselves. 

And when we study and become perfectly familiar 
with all the faculties and their combinations, we find 
that man is indeed fearfully and yet wonderfully 
made. 

But there are other combinations of the faculties 
which are not fraught with such serious and awful 
consequences, if not controlled or if left to run to 
their limit. For example, the musical talent is com- 
posed of two faculties, that of time and tune. Time 
gives the capacity to measure and keep the correct 
time in music, and tune gives the ability to learn and 
appreciate tunes. When these two organs are well 
developed in one of a fine-grained temperament, it 
gives a fine musical talent. And these two faculties 
might be developed to their limit, and no serious re- 
sults would be likely to follow. But even they need 
the control of the moral faculties to prevent one from 
singing immoral songs. 

I have now given the reader a sufficient insight to 
the science of Phrenology to enable you to under- 
stand both Hypnotism and Magnetic Healing, so I 
will now proceed to show you how to hypnotize ; but, 
lest my readers should have some prejudice against 



54 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

hypnotism (as many people do have, not knowing 
anything of its nature or history), let me say that 
the Lord was the first Hypnotist of which we have 
any account, and which dates back to the Garden of 
Eden. In Genesis we have the account where the 
Lord caused a deep sleep to come over Adam while 
he made him a helpmate. 

Perhaps no better a definition of hypnotism could 
be given than to say it is a deep sleep of the self- 
conscious faculty, in which the self -consciousness of 
the person is entirely lost for the time being — that 
is, if he is fully hypnotized. But there is a condi- 
tion of mind, which I wish to describe here, that is 
similar to hypnotism, only that the subject is to a 
certain degree self-conscious, and which I will term 
"concentration of mind/' Have you ever observed 
an audience spellbound under the influence of a pow- 
erful magnetic speaker or orator, when the entire au- 
dience appeared to be oblivious of everything except 
the orator and his theme ? Now, this is a condition 
of mind in which the so-called intelligent faculties 
are concentrated upon the orator and his theme, and 
the self-conscious faculty is withdrawn from activity, 
and it is at a very low ebb, owing to the concentrated 
power of the mind upon the rest of the organs of the 
brain. In this condition the person or persons may 
be easily influenced, as the condition of the mind is 
very much as it would be if the self-conscious organ 
was naturally weak, and the combination which gives 
faith or belief was naturally very strong. So, if you 
wish to hypnotize, this is the best possible condition 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 55 

in which to get your subjects before trying to hypno- 
tize them. If you get them to this point, the work of 
hypnotizing will be an easy matter. To get your 
subjects in this condition it will be necessary to make 
some preparations as to what you will say and how 
you will say it; (for there are but few people who 
can talk right along for any length of time without 
hesitation, if they have not made preparation for it ; 
and, if there is hesitation, it gives your hearers a 
chance to regain their self-consciousness.) Then, 
too, your subject matter must be of a character that 
will interest your hearers, or it will not withdraw 
their minds from the self -consciousness. 

MAGNETISM. 

In order for you to secure the conditions we have 
just described, it is necessary for you to develop a 
considerable amount of magnetism. 

The brain is an electro-magnetic battery and 
creates personal magnetism of either a positive or 
negative character, in accordance to whatever the 
predominating traits of the individual's character 
are. Ladies are usually of the negative type and at- 
tract, while gentlemen generally have the positive — 
hence the one attracts the other; but this is not al- 
ways the case, sometimes it is the reverse. 

Therefore, if you wish to influence, call into activ- 
ity the organs of your brain that are of a positive 
character, and the one above all others that you should 
keep active is the self-conscious faculty. And this is 



56 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

the reason why you should have fixed in your mind 
before hand just what to say and how to say it; for, 
just in proportion to your efforts put forth to grasp 
your thoughts, do you relinquish your hold on the 
self-conscious faculty. Let me illustrate this prin- 
ciple: When your telephone receiver is hanging in 
its place all the electric current is shut off from it, but 
goes all to the bell part of the instrument, so you can 
hear it ring; but, when you take down the receiver, 
the current is released from the bell and transferred 
to the receiver. ISTow, this power that we compare 
with the electric current is the spiritual man; all of 
the remainder of the individual we will compare with 
the different parts of the telephone and line. 

Firmness is another faculty which is of a positive 
nature and should be called into activity at the proper 
time, and also Combativeness. But while you are 
holding these positive faculties of mind in activity, 
you want to call to the minds of those whom you wish 
to influence, such principles as will call into activity 
the qualities that are of a negative character. Don't 
you see, the negative always attracts the positive, and 
you very soon have a current of magnetism flowing 
out from you to your hearers ; but magnetism is like 
electricity — you cannot see it, only see its influence. 

Try this experiment : Take a small piece of news- 
paper, six or eight inches long, two inches wide and 
tapered to a point at one end ; now draw it briskly be- 
tween your first and second fingers a few times and 
then hold it near your other hand and see it act as if 
it were a thing of life ; hold it near your clothes and 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 57* 

i 

see it try to come to ycu ; then rub it again, and put 
it on the mirror of the smoothest wall or glass and see 
the paper cling to it. If the paper is new and clean 
and will not do these things, you do not have much 
magnetism; but if you can do this at first trial you 
can do it much better after a few trials, and espe- 
cially after exercising these positive powers of mind. 

No definite rule can be laid down that would suit 
all persons in regard to calling out the negative pow- 
ers of mind of your hearers ; but, all that is not posi- 
tive is negative: such elements as love, hope, friend- 
ship, cautiousness, benevolence, wonder, memory and 
approbation. Whenever the mind grasps for a time 
such thoughts as these it releases its hold to a great 
degree on the self-conscious faculty, just as the mind 
of a person with a quick temper releases its hold on 
caution when thoughts of anger come. 

Now, holding this principle in mind, let me refer 
you to what I have previously said about the self- 
conscious faculty, faith, belief, and expectation. 
When self-consciousness is in abeyance, you can 
make one believe anything ; but it is at a low ebb now, 
and can be easily influenced. 

Their minds have been following your thoughts 
and will continue to do so so long as you say nothing 
that is against their ideas of justice and right. Never 
attempt to hypnotize any one who does not wish to 
be hypnotized; but, if any wishes to be hypnotized, 
after explaining to them that it will not hurt them, 
that it is like a dream, that it is a part of the mind 
asleep and the remainder awake and dreaming, and 



58 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

that you will take good care of them and have them 
have a pleasant dream and awaken them all right. 
You can put several persons in the magnetic sleep at 
the same time, just as well as one. I have put a class 
of half a dozen persons in the magnetic sleep in a few 
minutes. You can do the same by a little practice 
and a careful study of this book — that is, if you are 
a person of average ability and your subjects really 
want to be hypnotized. 

Now tell your subjects they will get drowsy and 
sleepy ; say to them that while you have been talking 
your brain has been generating magnetism, and that 
you are going to send it out at your finger-ends, and 
that they will feel its effects, but that it will not 
hurt them in any way, but that it will make them 
sleepy, that it is a kind of a tingling sensation and 
will make them get sleepy and sleepier all the time, 
until they will go into an easy, quiet sleep ; that they 
will go to sleep without being aware that they are 
going to sleep; tell them that this is not a real sleep, 
but a magnetic or an artificial sleep, but that it is 
very like a real sleep, and that they are not conscious 
of it when they are going into a real sleep and neither 
are they conscious of it when going into the mag- 
netic sleep. Tell them to close their eyes and now 
have them put the end of the fingers of the right 
hand against the end of the fingers of the left hand 
and their thumbs also together, bending their fingers 
so that the end of each finger will come together with 
the end of the corresponding finger on the other hand, 
holding them tightly together. Tell them that the 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 6§ 

ends of the fingers are full of pores and that your 
energy of mind or activity of brain has generated a 
wonderful amount of magnetism and that you are 
going to throw it off at your finger ends as you ex- 
tend your hands toward their brains, and that if they 
will hold their fingers tightly together that they will 
very soon feel this magnetic current in their eyes and 
fingers and all over, for if they will hold their fingers 
tight it is like putting a cork in a bottle, so it cannot 
escape, and it will soon thoroughly magnetize them 
and that they will get sleepier and sleepier all the 
time, one faculty after another going to sleep. (Em- 
phasizing just a little the word sleep.) Now, by this 
time, you will feel this magnetic current in your own 
fingers, and especially if you have rubbed your hands 
together briskly, which you should do when com- 
mencing the experiment, to start the flow of magnet- 
ism. By this time you will notice that they look 
drowsy, so say to them that they are getting very 
drowsy and sleepy. By repeating these assertions 
and changing the manner of expressing them just a 
little, yet meaning about the same thing, it keeps 
them busy thinking about sleep and allows the self- 
conscious faculty to become inactive, and it very soon 
falls into a magnetic sleep. While you are saying 
thest things, you should say them with a firm, posi- 
tive manner ; and yet, not necessarily a loud tone, but 
with an air of enthusiasm. When the mind gets en- 
thused it makes the whole frame vibrate, for, the 
brain being an Electro-Magnetic battery, sets in mo- 
tion every atom of his entire body; not necessarily 



60 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

perceptibly, but it is a vibration that can be commu- 
nicated to others by extending the outstretched hands 
toward the subject's eyes. It causes a tingling sensa- 
tion, like your arm or foot when it is asleep. 

In proof of this vibration, let me refer you to an 
extreme case; let any one be frightened or in great 
danger and their mind is wrought upon until their 
whole body trembles like a leaf. Now, if you have 
extended your hands toward their eyes for a few mo- 
ments while making these positive assertions, em- 
phasizing the word sleep just a little, your subject's 
self-conscious faculty must be at a very low ebb, if it 
has not gone entirely to sleep ; yet he may not show 
much signs of sleep; for, remember, his other facul- 
ties may be active yet; but you must remember that 
if the self-conscious faculty is gone to sleep, he does 
not know anything- — that is, he is not conscious of 
any thought, though memory may be active and re- 
cording in his mind all you say, and remember that 
the combination which gives belief or expectation is 
awake and also his imagination. 

Now, I refer you to what I said about the self-con- 
scious faculty being opposed to belief or expectation ; 
for we are now coming to a critical time, for a chal- 
lenge must be made. But it is no serious matter, if 
you go about it in the right manner. You have no 
positive means of knowing whether he has gone to 
sleep until you make the challenge ; but if he has not 
gone to sleep the challenge will put him to sleep, if 
you proceed just right. So now, be prepared, when 
you make your challenge, to follow it up with several 



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assertions without any delay, to keep his other facul- 
ties active, for a few seconds, at least, or he may pos- 
sibly regain his self-conscious faculty at this critical 
time. But if prowess and stealth are used it is an 
easy matter to prevent it. 

ISTow make this challenge : "Your fingers are stick- 
ing fast together and your eyes are fastening tighter 
and tighter all the time, and they are closed so tight 
you cannot open them, but you can see with your 
brain, and if you look just a little higher you will see 
a beautiful landscape, all covered with beautiful ever- 
green trees; you see the trees, don't you?" (His im- 
agination is very likely to come into activity and he 
answers "Yes," but if not, keep right on talking.) 
"There is a beautiful stream of water, clear as crys- 
tal, coming down the mountain; you see the water, 
don't you ?" If no answer is yet given, keep on talk- 
ing. "Here comes a boat down the river ; you see the 
boat, don't you ?" If he doesn't answer yet, possibly 
his imagination is asleep also, so try an appeal to an- 
other faculty. Say, "Listen ; they are singing ; you 
hear them singing, don't you ?" Always making what 
a lawyer would term a leading question, and he will 
very soon answer you, and you can then play upon 
all his faculties at will. And there is no reason why 
you shouldn't be. successful if you have made these 
assertions in a firm, earnest and natural way, because 
you have called out his expectation, having excited 
his imagination, you have stimulated his belief in 
you and at the same time you have made his self- 
conscious faculty inactive and stupefied by sugges- 



62 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

tion and by the magnetic current thrown off at your 
finger ends. And by making the challenge just de- 
scribed or this one: "Now, you are sound asleep 
and cannot wake up until I tell you to" (followed up 
with) "But you can see with your brain, and if you 
look higher you will see a beautiful field of flowers," . 
or, "You see a lovely rainbow," or anything that will 
excite or stimulate his imagination, and then follow 
it up with any suggestion you may think of to call 
out any of his faculties you may wish. This vivifies 
their imagination, and whatever you suggest seems 
real to them. 

Now, when you make the challenge, always say, 
"You can't open your eyes or wake up until I want 
you to." Or, "You cannot open your eyes until I tell 
you to." If you do not make this provision, you may 
find it hard to awaken them. When you wish to 
awaken them, all you have to do is to say in a firm 
tone, "Now you can open your eyes," or "Now you 
can wake up." 

After having made the provision as above men- 
tioned, this appeals to their self-conscious faculty and 
wakes it up ; just like calling the name of the sleeper 
arouses them from the natural sleep. 

A NOTE OF WARNING. 

Hypnotism is a great science, and one which must 
not be trifled with by persons who are not perfectly 
familiar with its scientific truths. 

There is a possibility of putting a subject into the 



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magnetic sleep so deeply as to lose entire control of 
the mind if you do not proceed right. Everything is 
controlled by suggestion. 

When you put the person into the magnetic sleep 
your suggestion withdraws the self-conscious faculty 
from activity; but remember, it goes into uncon- 
sciousness with the consciousness that you are going 
to awaken it. But remember, too, that you as a hyp- 
notist has taken its place, so that your self-conscious 
faculty, and indeed all of your faculties and all of 
your subject's faculties, except the self-conscious fac- 
ulty, are as one mind. You cannot appeal to that 
self-conscious faculty which you have withdrawn 
from activity, only through the other faculties of his 
mind; for you have in reality shut off all spiritual 
connection from that organ of the brain, just as the 
manager of the Central Office might shut off the elec- 
tric current of your telephone line, and your tele- 
phone would be dead for the time being. But there 
is a small silvery cord or nerve running from the cen- 
ter of the brain to every organ of brain which might 
very aptly be compared to the telephone lines run- 
ning to each subscriber's 'phone. This central office 
is at the point just half-way between the ears, at 
what is called the Madula-oblongata. This is where 
the spiritual and physical man are blended in one, 
and an appeal can be made to this dormant faculty 
and organ of brain, through the combination which 
gives belief, which are the faculties of Hope and 
Spirituality ; you may call it faith, belief, or expecta- 
tion — they are synonymous terms. 



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And what the mind believes it can do, nothing 
doubting, it can do, if it is within the pales of possi- 
bility; so you make the affirmation that the person 
can wake up, and it appeals to the combination above 
mentioned and that at once appeals to the central 
office to turn on the current and the faculty is active 
again. 

There is not a thought that ever is entertained in 
the mind but that is brought about by the activity of 
some one of the organs of the brain. But suppose 
you do as I have done on one or two occasions: put 
all of these organs asleep at the same time, or, by 
suggestion, shut off one after another, all of the fac- 
ulties, from the central office, until there is none left 
to appeal to. For, in this world of time and knowl- 
edge, the spiritual part of man can neither act nor 
be acted upon, except through a material organ. If 
you ever get a subject in this condition, I assure you; 
it will worry you some, unless you have made an as- 
sertion before he went to sleep that he should wake 
up at a certain time, or, that you would call them at 
a certain time. If you have done this you will not 
likely have much trouble to awaken them ; but if you 
have not done this, they will take their own time, and 
will not be likely to awake until hunger or pain of 
body appeals through the sensory nervous system to 
the central office and the current is turned on and 
the brain and mind is again active. 

You must be very careful with your subject when 
he is hypnotized and not make any suggestions which 
will cause him pain or injury, for, remember, that 



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every suggestion that you make is to him a reality 
for the time being; you have taken the place of his 
own self-conscious f acuity, and his own self-conscious 
faculty has never deceived him. Therefore he puts 
implicit confidence in every word you say; for he 
isn't aware that you are anything but his own self- 
consciousness. In other words, if he is thoroughly 
hypnotized, so that his self-conscious faculty is in 
perfect abeyance, he is not aware that he is in exist- 
ence, or that he even was in existence, any more than 
you are aware of it when you are in a sound sleep. 
When you are asleep and dreaming you are not con- 
scious, just at that time, of existence, although your 
memory may be awake and remembering the dream, 
and when you awake, it appears to you that you were 
conscious at the time, but it is because you remember 
the dream. 

So that is why the hypnotized person is so confid- 
ing and so easily deceived, or lead, so long as you do 
not go contrary to their sense of honor, or their ideas 
of right and wrong ; for, when you do this, it at once 
appeals to the faculty of Conscientiousness and it 
arouses the self-conscious faculty, then the hypnotic 
influence is gone ; so, I say, do not make any sugges- 
tions that would frighten them, such as that they 
were falling through space, or being murdered, or be- 
ing burned, or anything that would cause pain, either 
of body or mind ; for it is a shock to the nerves, and 
such suggestions are not at all necessary. All sug- 
gestions that are pleasant and agreeable is beneficial 



66 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

to the person. Those that are not, are harmful, at 
least, most of them are. 

HYPNOTISM DEFENDED. 

There is scarcely anything in this world so good, 
but it may be used for a bad purpose. There is so 
much prejudice against hypnotism, and I, knowing 
its great value as a science, and as an aid in mag- 
netic healing, and in other ways, I feel that I must 
say a word in its defense. So, I will say that the 
worst possible harm that can come of it is caused by 
ignorance of its real value. People do not under- 
stand it and shun it, instead of investigating it, and 
in so doing, keep on the danger side of it. It is like 
any other great force in nature, such as heat, elec- 
tricity, gravitation, etc. They are all good things, 
but are all productive of evil effects, if you get on 
the danger side of them. 

From what I have already said about the spiritual 
power of man I suppose that some of my readers will 
think that I am a Spiritualist, but I am not. That 
is, in the sense that you perhaps think, yet I believe 
in the spiritual power of man, and that this present 
life is but the preparatory stage for a spiritual life ; 
for time is but that part of Eternity which is meas- 
ured by the successive revolutions of the earth on 
which we live, and when that measurement shall 
cease to be there can but be One eternal now. And 
this present life is far too short when compared with 
Eternity to be all there is of this grandest and noblest 
piece of creative skill on earth, which we call mind. 

For thus it seemeth when life is done, 

That life eternal is just begun. 

The time moveth on with measured tread, 



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Filling the graves of the countless dead, 
But one eternal now is ahead 
Crowning the brows of the quickened dead. 
The Mind, the plastic body doth mould ; 
In turn the body doth mould the soul. 
We are conscious now, of Mortal Thrill, 
In spirit life, w r e'll be conscious still. 

MAGNETIC HEALING. 

In calling your attention to this method of reliev- 
ing pain and healing the sick, let me say that it is 
no new method that is untried or not proved — for it 
was Christ's way of healing the sick — He cured by 
the "laying on of hands," and undoubtedly by the 
use of the magnetic current ; for He said on one occa- 
sion, when the multitude was following Him and a 
certain woman who had an issue of blood for years 
touched the hem of His garment and He turned and 
said, "Who has touched me ?" For he perceived that 
virtue has gone out of Him and healed some one. 
Now, what was this virtue, if it was not the mag- 
netic current ? 

There are many magnetic healers to-day, who can 
testify to the virtue of the magnetic current to heal 
the sick. Many times I have felt the virtue (or, the 
magnetic current), going out of my fingers' ends 
while I have been treating the sick. Christ not only 
healed the sick Himself, but taught His disciples to 
do the same, by the laying on of the hands, and He 
sent out His ministers to preach the gospel and to 
heal the sick; just as much for the healing as for 
preaching, and He said: "Even greater things than 
I do shall ye do." But let us inquire, what is this 
magnetism ? There is a something in man which I 
have called the spirit of man. It is not mind, and 



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yet helps make what we call mind. In one sense it 
is like electricity or magnetism — that is, we cannot 
see it, but can only see its influence. The combining 
of this spiritual power with brain activity produces 
what we call mind, and we believe that neither one 
could produce this phenomenon of mind without the 
help of the other ; that is, as we know it in this life ; 
we cannot tell what it will be in a future state of ex- 
istence. 

Now, according to the general belief, this must be 
the divinity in man ; whatever you may choose to call 
it, mind is a product of it and the active brain. The 
self-conscious faculty can combine it with any one of 
the organs of brain at will, and the activity of that 
part of the brain produces an electric current, and 
that current is positive or negative, according to 
whether it be a positive or negative quality of mind. 

The brain is composed of fine cells and this electric 
current sets them in motion, just as the current of 
electricity on the telephone line sets in motion the 
hammer in the telephone instrument which rings the 
bell. This movement is a vibration and this vibra- 
tion goes out over the nerves and makes the mind to 
some degree present in every part of the body; and 
these vibrations, when produced by pleasant thoughts, 
are in perfect harmony and are health producing; 
when sent out by such thoughts as anger, jealousy, 
hatred, strife of vexation, they are discord and pro- 
ductive of ill health and disease. 

ISTow, the current which the active brain sends out 
is an electric current; but the vibration which it re- 
cords on the nervous system is quite another thing. 
This vibrating sensation which is produced by the 
electric current is what we call magnetism; and its 
wonders are far beyond your imagination. It is the 
great lever power which, when accompanied by a 



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strong development of the self-conscious faculty, has 
swayed the multitudes. 

I know people are apt to think it is an indomitable 
will which sways the multitudes, but this is only one 
of the ingredients. 

The more of those positive qualities one has well 
developed the greater will be the magnetic power. 

N'ow, this vibrating power can be sent out at the 
finger ends to the patient and register the same har- 
monious vibrations upon the nerves of the sick per- 
son, whose whole mind and body are filled with dis- 
cord and consequently pain and disease. 

My patients often ask me, "Must I have faith to 
be cured?" My answer is usually something like 
this: "Well, if you have faith, it is all the better, 
but if you only have enough to be willing to give me 
a fair trial, that is all that is really necessary." 
Now, let me tell you why. I suppose faith is just as 
necessary to-day as it was in Christ's time. Let us 
consider : What is faith ? My definition is, that it 
is belief that will not admit of a particle of doubt. 
And I imagine I hear some of my readers saying it 
is a scarce article. Well, now, that settles it about 
faith. 

Now, what is unbelief? My definition is, that 
unbelief is, in reality, belief, but in an opposing di- 
rection, and, I will add that it is quite a plentiful 
article. When it comes to healing the sick it mat- 
ters not what method you attempt to heal with. Now, 
while I am a Magnetic Healer, and firmly believe in 
healing all manner of sickness in that way, yet I 
don't wish to condemn a medical doctor because he 
uses drugs to cure the sick. Perhaps he doesn't 
know any better. I have said that unbelief is really 
belief in an opposing direction. I will give an illus- 
tration here to show the new beginner how to pro- 



70 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

ceed in magnetic treatment, where the patient doesn't 
believe in magnetic treatment, and yet is willing to 
give it a trial : Here are two opposing elements like 
two opposing currents of wind ; you, as the magnetic 
healer, have read all that I have said about the in- 
fluence of mind over mind ; how to generate the mag- 
netic current and how to communicate it to the sub- 
ject; how to use the power of suggestion; how to 
place your hands on the affected parts and rub the 
defective parts along the way the blood should travel 
through the arteries and veins. And with all this 
knowledge how to proceed, I will compare you to the 
strongest current of wind; your patient I will com- 
pare to the other current which, though at first, may 
be just as strong, yet you have learned how to call 
into activity those magnetic powers of mind and thus 
weaken the contending power of belief. But do not 
attempt to stop there believe by contending argu- 
ment. Let them take their course side by side with 
your belief; you going your way and they theirs. 
Now, suppose your first case is a severe attack of 
rheumatism in the arms and shoulders. After ques- 
tioning the person as to just where the worst pain 
is and of how long standing, etc., say to the person, 
"Just roll up your sleeves, please, till I see your 
arm," and when the sleeve is above the elbow, say, 
"That will do; now, just sit in a comfortable, easy 
position and I will give you a treatment that will 
draw that pain right out of your arms; you have 
probably caught cold, and it has chilled the blood so 
that it does not circulate perfectly, and there is no 
doubt stagnant blood here that causes this pain. The 
large arteries come very close to the surface in the 
front part of the elbow and down to the wrist, and if 
the blood is impure the blood vessels will look blue." 
So, say to your patient, "Now, I am going to draw 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 71 

out this impure blood, this stagnant blood that has 
not been in motion and which is causing you this 
pain." No w, commence to rub down the arm with 
the ends of your fingers and up to the first joint of 
your fingers over those blood vessels and say, "Now, 
this is an artificial means of increasing the circula- 
tion of the blood. Now, you see I am forcing the 
blood along in front of my fingers and in a very 
short time all of this stagnant blood will be drawn out 
and as it is drawn out the nice, rich blood must nat- 
urally rush in and take its place, and you will see as 
the good blood takes its place your rheumatism will 
disappear." Now, rub back the other way on the 
back of the hand and wrist and say, "Now, the blood 
will be carried back through the vein system and if 
you will set up straight and throw your shoulders 
back and breathe long and full and free, it will be 
purified by the air you breathe ; that is what the fresh 
air is for, to purify the blood, and if it is kept in 
active circulation it will be kept pure, and the body 
will be free from pain. But, if it is allowed to re- 
main stagnant in any part, it will cause pain, and 
when forced out in this way, when it gets into the 
lungs to be purified, oftentimes it is so impure as to 
make the breath offensive to the smell." 

Now, say, "Your pain is going away, and it will 
soon be gone." Now, rub the front part again as be- 
fore for a moment and say, "Now, see how full your 
veins are" ; for you will be surprised yourself how 
full they will be, and then you can say, "Now, your 
pain is all gone, isn't it ?" And in nine cases out of 
ten, if you have done this in good earnest, and in a 
perfectly natural way, it will be entirely gone; for 
he sees the reasonableness of it and expects it to go, 
and as the Bible says, "As a man thinketh, so is he." 
So, now, you see that those two currents of opposing 



72 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

winds have come closer and closer to each other un- 
til the stronger current turned the weaker one about 
and the two were made as one, but going your way. 
Oftentimes two currents of wind going in opposite 
directions causes the air to roll between the two cur- 
rents and causes a whirlwind, one current going east 
and one west. If the current going east is the strong- 
est it will cause the one going west to slow up. But 
the two going in opposite directions cause the air be- 
tween the two to go in a circle and travel in the di- 
rection of the strongest current, and finally the 
weaker one turns about and adds its force to the 
stronger current. So you will find the patient's be- 
liefs may be turned about, and you will have a whirl- 
wind of success. Oftentimes sore eyes or old sores or 
bruises are caused by stagnant blood and can be cured 
in the same way. By drawing out the impure blood 
and allowing the pure blood to come in and take its 
place. Each time it is drawn out it gets a little bet- 
ter and, of course, making appropriate suggestions 
while you are giving the treatment is necessary. 

The magnetic healer should study how to make 
suggestions to the best advantage, that the patient 
may be encouraged to expect a cure; for this is an 
important factor in curing all manner of diseases. 

Faith was necessary in Christ's time, and it is nec- 
essary to-day, and these suggestions are a means of 
bringing the patient to a point where he can reason- 
ably expect a cure. Christ made suggestions to those 
whom he cured. On one occasion he spat upon the 
ground and made clay of the spittle and annointed 
the eyes of the blind man, that he might receive his 
sight. On another occasion He suggested to the per- 
son, "To go and wash in the pool of Siloam." On 
another occasion He suggested, "To take up thy bed 
and walk/' and to another, "Stretch forth thy with- 



THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 73 

ered hand," and then He says, "Thy faith hath made 
thee whole." They were healed because they ex- 
pected to be healed. 

Of those who were not healed, He said, it was be- 
cause of their unbelief. 

Suggestions can be made in many ways. Medical 
doctors give a medicine and that is of itself a sug- 
gestion, and many times it is accompanied by a ver- 
bal suggestion, which, no doubt, . is of more value 
than the medicine itself, and at the same time not so 
injurious to the patient. 

Always keep your suggestions within the bounds 
of reason. Otherwise they weaken the power of sug- 
gestion. Never claim to have cured more people than 
you have had patients or show more testimonials of 
cured people than you have given treatment to. Even 
animals, to some extent, know the power of sugges- 
tion. Who has not seen the old brindle cow change 
the mind of an assailant by a shake of her horns, or 
the family dog his by the showing of his teeth ? 

Thus far I have called your attention more par- 
ticularly to the part that the mind has to do with 
the healing of diseases ; but, remember, that the mind 
must go before in everything we do, and that these 
thoughts of the brain have an effect on the bodily 
organs. As the healer's mind is concentrated on the 
thought of healing and his hands in contact with the 
patient and by his suggestions to the patient, which 
keeps the negative powers of his mind active, so that 
his self-conscious faculty is in abeyance; this, then, 
invites the magnetic current and its vibrations record 
on his organism the same vibrations that are in the 
healer's brain. And, indeed, with practice and per- 
fect concentration can produce the same thoughts in 
the mind of his patient that he holds in his own mind, 
which is, 



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TELEPATHY AND THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE. 



To accomplish this the self-conscious facility of the 
one who receives the message must be in a state of al- 
most perfect inactivity and the entire mind and brain 
receptive to the influence of the other person who 
sends the message, and who must withhold all activ- 
ity of all negative powers of the mind: such as doubt, 
fear, caution, etc. (for the time being), and with a 
firm grasp on, his self -consciousness and his determi- 
nation to send his message, it will defy time and 
space. But, in order to accomplish this, there must 
be both the power of attraction by the receiving brain 
and the power of repulsion at the same time by the 
sending brain. But, in magnetic healing, the healer 
himself can manage this by suggestive therapeutics, 
which I have already described to some degree and 
which is an important factor in healing. People who 
do not understand the principles of magnetic heal- 
ing wonder why the magnetic healer does not exhaust 
all of his magnetism in the healing art, but my ex- 
planation makes it plain. The supply is practically 
inexhaustable so long as the mind is active, and the 
healer retains his power of concentration of mind. 
They wonder, too, why we do not catch some con- 
tagious disease. Now, let me explain this: People 
who catch the contagious diseases most usually are 
those who fear it ; persons who do not fear it, seldom 
catch it. There is a mind atmosphere (so to speak) 
constantly around every individual and somewhat of 
a magnetic influence passing from the positive minds 
to the negative minds, and in this way catching dis- 
eases are communicated to those of a receptive mind 
at the time of near contact, and, of course, fear being 
of a negative character, those who fear it invite it 
by fearing it, while those who do not fear it repel it. 



THE SELF-COXSCIOtJS FACULTY OF MIND. 'TS 

Of course, if the healer's mind is in a receptive 
mood, there is just as much danger as anyone else, 
but when he goes to see a patient he should keep his 
mind in a positive mood and thus ward off disease, 
and at the same time create in the mind of his patient 
a receptive mind, in order that he may catch good 
health,, if possible. 

Thus you see that the probability of catching the 
disease is reduced to the minimum, but this is a class 
of diseases that the magnetic healer is not often called 
on to give treatment and where one wishes to do so a 
special treatise on this particular subject would be 
necessary, which would not be applicable to all read- 
ers of the present work. All nervous diseases yield 
to the magnetic treatment very readily, and diseases 
of this class are very prevalent. An application of 
the hands in a gentle massage has a very soothing 
effect and the trouble disappears like magic. 

Fevers of all kinds can be cured in a short time 
by a determined effort of magnetic treatment ; it mat- 
ters not what kind of a fever it is, the pores of the 
skin are closed up, more or less, and the person needs 
a sweat. In all cases of this kind, the healer should 
give a general treatment first to allay the fevered 
condition of the person and to put them in a comfort- 
able condition ; this can be done by placing the hands 
on the head, one on the forehead and the other on the 
back of the head and with gentle, yet determined, in- 
tention to allay the fever and then with long, gentle 
strokes or passes down the spine with the hands, tell- 
ing the patient at the same time, that this is to draw 
the blood from the fevered brain and equalize the cir- 
culation. ISTow, place your hands on the head again af- 
ter having rubbed them together briskly, to heat them, 
and tell the patient you are going to make him sweat 
and open up the pores of the skin, and that the fever 



7 6 THE SELF-CONSCIOUS FACULTY OF MIND. 

will then leave them; tell him he will get warmer and 
warmer all the time until the sweat will come in pro- 
fusion. 

Put forth a determined effort to send a magnetic 
current from your right hand to your left through 
the brain and tell your patient they will feel this 
current, and they will, if you concentrate your mind 
with a determined effort. The patient will be a little 
uncomfortable until the perspiration starts, but then 
they will feel so much better and it need not take 
long if energy and determination are used. After 
the sweat and a few hours' rest, a good, warm bath 
should be taken, being sure not to take cold, and the 
patient is in fair way to recovery. This may seem 
strange to the reader, that we can make the person 
sweat in this way, but it is a law of the philosophy of 
mind that when the self-conscious faculty is in abey- 
ance that the other faculties will do what you 
command them to do, if it is in the pale of possibility 
to be done, and when the self-conscious faculty is in 
abeyance they can do what they couldn't do if it were 
not in abeyance; because the person then believes 
without a shadow of doubt that they can do it. And 
now, when I say in abeyance, I don't necessarily 
mean in entire cessation from activity, but a condi- 
tion in which the beliefs have an ascendancy over the 
self-conscious faculty. In cases of fever the self- 
consciousness is easily withdrawn, as it often is so 
weakened by the disease as to withdraw it entirely 
from activity, and yet the other faculties are active, 
as is noticed by the talk, yet they are without con- 
trol or guidance. 

Stomach and Bowel Complaints can be treated by 
applying heated hands over the affected parts and 
kneading them, and by rubbing along the way their 
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suited to all these movements. In this way I have 
caused an easy movement of the bowels in cases 
where medicine had lost its power to move them and 
where the patient told me that their bowels had not 
moved for months without an injection. Where con- 
sumption or disease is lurking in any part of the body 
it is usually accompanied by a lack of a proper flow 
of blood to the parts, and stagnant blood will be the 
result and pain and distress must follow if not re- 
moved. 

It has long been taught, and still is the general be- 
lief, that the heart furnishes the power by which the 
blood is propelled through the blood vessels to all 
parts of the body; but it is my belief that it has no 
more to do with forcing it through the system and 
not as much as the lungs has ; the office of the heart 
with reference to the circulation of the blood might 
be compared to the pendulum of a spring clock with 
reference to the running of the clock. The office of 
the heart is not to force the blood through the blood 
vessels, but simply to regulate, cut off, and to measure 
the blood, just as the pendulum of the clock regu- 
lates, cuts off and measures the time. I am not alone 
in this belief, and I would like to refer my readers 
to what Prof. O. S. Fowler says on this subject; 
but it is too long to quote here, so will refer you to 
his book, entitled "Creative and Sexual Science," 
pages 1030 to 1036, inclusive. Prof. Fowler was an 
able and forcible writer and lecturer, and one of the 
greatest Phrenologists that this country has ever pro- 
duced. And I wish here to acknowledge the debt of 
gratitude I owe to him and others of the firm of 
which he was one of the founders for the many 
thoughts I have gleaned from their writings and used 
in the preparation of this work. The gist of his 
argument is that electricity is the motive power 



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which forces the blood through the system, by the 
laws of attraction and repulsion, caused by the elec- 
tricity in the air we breathe and the iron in the blood. 

CONCLUSION. 

In drawing my conclusion I wish to call your at- 
tention to a statement made by Prof. S. A. Weltner, 
of Nevada, Missouri, who is one of the greatest mag- 
netic healers of the present time, and one to whom 
I am indebted for many valuable suggestions, gleaned 
from his writing and used in preparing this book, 
and to whom I wish to give due credit for the same. 
The statement is in regard to his success as a mag- 
netic healer. He says, "My success from the begin- 
ning was phenomenal. Among the first cases tried 
were cancer, paralysis, rheumatism, locomotor ataxia, 
tuberculosis, morphine habit, malignant diseases of 
all descriptions, periodical and intermittant fevers. 
My trials were successful beyond my expectations. 
In contemplating these results I was satisfied there 
was a principle involved in this treatment that had 
never been fully understood or explained by any of 
the writers on these subjects. I studied the archives 
of literature, studied the minds of my patients, and 
also hypnotic subjects, for some clew to the hidden 
principle, and at last received the first inkling of it 
from a child less than thirteen years old, whom I had 
placed in the deepest hypnotic trance. While vaguely 
discussing the question that some force omnipotent 
in its nature must exist, just as electricity in diffu- 
sion exists; this child suggested that the power in- 
volved must be what men call God. At this time I was 
still carefully studying the new testament scriptures 
and my mind was directed by this mere child to the 
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"Two of you shall agree on earth as touching any- 
thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of 
my Father which is in Heaven." I was convinced 
that all the power there is in the world is one power 
that the Father which is in Heaven is the only power 
Jesus recognized. But more than all other things 
that impressed me in this statement was, that the 
method that started this one power into action was 
that if two of you shall agree, which corresponds ex- 
actly with the power to produce hypnotic conditions, 
as there must be perfect agreement between operator 
and subject. 

Like a flash of light the thought came to me that 
the principle which had so perplexed the investi- 
gators of all ages had been stated in this verse of 
scripture. From that time to this my entire work 
has been to prove the truth of this statement ; and in 
thousands upon thousands of lives I have seen the 
principle demonstrated until it is no longer a belief 
that a perfect agreement secured between two persons 
will bring to man whatever he asks, hut is positive 
knowledge. 

Now, I have told you in this book how to secure 
this agreement between minds, and when this is done 
that spark of divinity which is in every individual 
and which I have called the spirit of man, does the 
work of healing all manner of diseases, through the 
activity of that part of the brain which gives expecta- 
tion, belief, faith. 

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evi- 
dence of things not seen." — St. Paul. 

Just in proportion as we as magnetic healers are 
capable of bringing about this agreement, just in that 
proportion will we be successful in healing the sick. 



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